not only over a cross-way, where itwas necessary, but also over all corridors and long apart-ments, by dividing them into a series of squares, each coveredby a cross-vault, thus throwing the whole pressure of thevaulting on the points of division between these square com-partments, and leaving the… … OF ARCHITECTURE. 211 toe Temple of Peace, now in ruins, had its nave covered bycross-vaults 83 feet wide, so that the groins on which thewhole rested had a span of83X/s/2 = llt feet; and an apart-ment in the baths of Diocletian, still in use as a church, hasa similar ceiling of about 86 feet in…
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