Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : James R. Osgood · leaf 58
ise be brought into a strictline. This intelligent man (let us not lose sight of this point) liasobserved that the trunks of trees, when raised horizontally by theirtwo extremities, bend in the middle with their own weiglit, andespecially so if they support a burden ; he lays then, between tlietop… … wood, sucli as is indicated in Fig. 1 at A, that is to say, a piècevery difficult to prociue on account of its widtli being much greatcrthan the diameter of the posts, and above ail very difficult to eut anddress without the aid of tools wliich he does not possess. Certainlysuch a pièce of Avood…
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