An encyclopædia of cottage, farm, and villa architecture and furniture : containing numerous designs for dwellings from the cottage to the villa including farm houses, farmeries, and other agricultural buildings, several designs for country inns, public houses, and parochial schools, with the requisite fittings-up fixtures and furniture ; and appropriate offices, gardens and garden scenery ; each design accompanied by analytical and critical marks illustrative of the principles of archtiectural science and taste on whihc it is composed (1836)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843 · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, and sold by John Weale, at the Architectural Library, High Holborn · leaf 587
110) … same roof. The laths, in the mode of slating generally practised, are made of dealonly an inch in width; and, as a nail piercing the slate lying on such inch-wide lathswill appear to have fastened it to the middle of that inch, the slate, with tiie wind liftingat its lower end, becomes a lever,…
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