Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : James R. Osgood · leaf 59
e butslightly the bearing of the horizonal beam. He would not givehimself so mucli trouble to obtaina resuit so insignificant ; but hewould eut a pièce of wood of a certain length, and in width equalto the thickness of tlie post, and placing it between the top ofthe post and thç horizontal beam,… … is real wooden construction, such as we see imitated in stonein the monument of India and even in those recently discoveredat Nineveh. But the square, wooden post has four inconimodious corners, whichthe primitive constructor proceeds to hew down, and thus forms anoctagonal prism. The last form…
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