Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies (1881)
Association of Engineering Societies (U.S.) · New York, [etc.] Board of Managers · leaf 188
It is not very enduring, and not very hard. All walls that were exposed were covered with stucco, both for appear- ance, I suppose, and preservation. As the Romans became more powerful, they wanted to build more enduring buildings, and they went to the foothills and mountains beyond, twenty-five or… … stone. The Colosseum and St. Peter's are built of that material. It was used very generally for building purposes. Temple build- ing, up to the time of Christ, or soon after — such temples as the Temple of Saturn — are all built of white marble. In the first three centuries of the Christian era the…
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