Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1882)
Yaggy, Levi W · Chicago, Western Publishing House; New York, Standard Publishing House; [etc.,etc.] · leaf 720
inch and a-half to ten feet. Being thuslaid, it is to be planed and polished diligently with some hardstone; but, above all, regard is to be had that the boarded floorbe made of oak. As for such as do start or warp any way, theybe thought naught. Moreover, it were better to lay a course offlint or… … APOLLO CUAUMINO NATURE. And here we must not forget another kind of these pave-ments which are called Grsccanica, the manner of which is this: 702 FINE ARTS, Upon a floor well beaten with rammers, is laid a bed of rubbish,or else broken tile-shards, and then upon it a couch of charcoal,well beaten,…
Haines, Thomas L · Civilization · Classical antiquities
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