History of architecture, from the earliest times; its present condition in Europe and the United States; with a biography of eminent architects, and a glossary of architectural terms (1848)
Tuthill, Louisa C. (Louisa Caroline), 1798-1879 · Philadelphia, Lindsay and Blakiston · leaf 31
spirits of the night; While near at hand The camels stand,And drink the waters bright. OF ARCHITECTURE. 21 It was a mighty step in the art of building when treeswere smoothed into posts and placed in a rectangularform, with a covering or roof over them. Simple asthis invention now appears, the… … Log cabins were used, thousands of years beforethey were built by American backwoodsmen. In the rude navigation of savages, the advance frompaddles and oars to sails, was not greater than thisstride from wigwams and mud huts, to a regular loghouse. The employment of stones for buildings, was…
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