Underwood, Loring · Boston, Little Brown, and company · leaf 194
ones are fitted together without the aidof cement and mortar. Unless well builtit is not so strong a structure as one thatis stuck together and pointed, but it isgenerally much more pleasing to look at,for each stone has a deptli of beauty, andthey all blend together naturally withoutbeing blocked… … THE GARDEN AND ITS ACCESSORIES of the stones to lie naturally one againstthe other, it will combine the two bestqualities, — the strength and beauty of bothkinds of walls. The great fault of many ofthe field stone walls that are built to-dayis the fact that the details of their construc-tion are…
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