A history of architecture in all countries, from the earliest times to the present day (1902)
Fergusson, James, 1808-1886, Spiers, Richard Phené, 1838-1916, Kerr, Robert, 1823-1904 · London, J. Murray · leaf 626
Sketch Plans of Walls of Cuzc from the plan, are arranged with a degree of skill nowhere else to bemet with in any work of fortification anterior to the invention ofgunpowder. To use a modern term, it is a fortification m tenaille ;the re-entering angles are generally right angles, so contrived that … View of Walls of Cuzoo. (From a Sketch by J. B. Pentland.) every part is seen, and as perfectly fianked as in the best Europeanfortifications of the present day. It is not a little singular that this perfection should have beenreached by a rude people in Southern America while it escaped theGreeks…
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