Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger), 1830-1903, Redford, George, d. 1895 · Meadville, Penna. : Flood and Vincent : Chautauqua-Century Press · leaf 20
k in stone of a nation ofshipbuilders. A Lycian tomb—such as the one now to beseen, accurately restored, in the British Museum—represents astructure of beams of wood framed together, surmounted by aroof which closely resembles a boat turned upside down. Theplanks, the beams to which they were… … Fig. 4.—Ancient Greek Wall of Unwrought Stone fromSamothrace. forms of a timber structure were those that presented them-selves to the imagination of the sculptoi*. In other instancesthe resemblance to shipwrights work disappears and that of thecarpenter is followed by that of the mason. Thus we…
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