A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 462
^i^.S LOG HOUSE log, a layer of moss being l;ii<l on before the lugsare adjusted ; ami tliis, being pressed betweenthe two (Fig. G), Iurnis a tight joint superior tothe American chinking method, tliough requiringmore labour. Russian jiartitions are made ofscjuared logs intricately fitted into… … ■7:^.L. V of an American one. Figure 9 shows the Rus-sian method of prei)aring the end of the log,which is done before the building is begun.Russian log houses sometimes reached huge pro-portions, as in the noted Baranoff Castle thatformerly stood at Sitka. Building of this kind is the natural…
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