Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 94
nough to show the principle. Vide, however, Ap«pendix 10, Strength of Shafts. THE PIER BASE. 81 remained a wall veil. The sticks into which you gather it arecalled Piers. A pier is a coagulated wall. § ii. Now you cannot quite treat the wall as you did theBristol board, and twist it up at once ;… … Fig. IX. divide it, as at b, into equal spaces, a, b, a, b, &c. Cut out athin slice of it at every a on each side, and put the slices youcut out on at every b on each side, and you will have the planat b, with exactly the same quantity of bricks. But your wallis now so much concentrated, that,…
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