An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture (1877)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford: J. Parker and Co. · leaf 300
made a strongfortification. Others werebuilt against the face of thecliffs of the low hills onwhich the city of Eome was jgg^ ^1 of Roma auadrata^.built. These ancient walls^ usually called in Eome **the Walls of the Kings, are com-monly fifty feet high and twelve feet thick; their large stones e… … 268 ITALY—BOMU. are each a ton weight, and they are placed alternately length-wise and crosswise, like modern bricks in London. One objectof the walls thus placed was to keep up the loose earth in a ver-tical position; this is the case also in the Etruscan cities. Thismode of building may be called…
Architecture, Gothic
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