AMSTERDAM. 93 the rigid uprights, serve to bind together the several sides of the spire. The eight angles of the spire, therefore, take their bearing on fixed points, free and independent, but yet firmly connected with each other, so that every torsion movement (the ordinary cause of the fall of… … Fig. 67. — Details of the Timbers of the Spire. (Scale, -157 inch to the yard.) might be exerted on one of the sides would be equally divided among the rest, which would thus be able to resist it. Tenons and mortises are not used, but are replaced by braces and ties. The wood-work, far from being…
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