Morse, Edward Sylvester, 1838-1925 · New York : Harper · leaf 59
ts. One is amazed 20 JAPANESE HOMES AND THEIR SURROUNDINGS. to see how many firemen can gather upon such a roof withoutits yielding. I have seen massive house-roofs over two hundredyears old, and other frame structures of a larger size and offar greater age, which presented no visible signs of… … FlG. 11. —liOOF-FRAMING OF KlJRA. would seem that here, at least, the foreign method of trussingmight be an economy of material, besides giving much greaterstrength; and yet the expense of reducing these beams toproper dimensions, in the absence of saw-mills and other labor-saving machinery, with…
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