The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 475
quarters of an inch in the yard, and this necessarily occasions the plane of theroof to rise towards the centre of the building, as shown in the sectionJig. 117., in which the rise is indicated by the dotted lines f f f f. All thecare that this requires in slating or tiling is, to bring the upper… … lower course of tiles to a level, as indicated in the longitudinal section throughthe gutter Jig. 118.; in which g is the gutter, A the lower course of tiles,i the gutter beam, and k hollow posts for supporting the gutter beam, andserving as pipes for conducting away the water from the gutter.…
