Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes and Lauriat Publishers · leaf 283
vanes, will not suffer to remain whollyundecorated. The rough service of these timbers, however,will not admit of rich ornament, and tlie boatbuilder usuallycontents himself with cutting a series of notches in each edge,one series alternating with the other, as represented at 1,Plate IX. § III. In… … i i: i _rJy.._r^..cd -^[dKS«stsg££a>Mt^ I* J^!\NvN. ^■•< ,.* ILATK iX.—Eixu; J)i:i ()j;atiox. THE EDGE AXD FILLET. 265 possessoi-s of penknives or other cutting instruments on bothsides of the Atlantic ;—in that rnde Venetian gunwale, I say,is the germ of all the ornament whicli has touched,…
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