Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 97
or brechesde Eoland in Fig. X. Our first impulse would be to cut themopen; but we cannot do this, or our piers are unsafe. Wehave but one other resource, to fill them up until we have afloor wide enough to let us pass easily: this we may perhapsobtain at the first ledge, we are nearly sure to get… … Fig. X. Fig. XL is the arrangement of Fig. X. so treated. § vn. But suppose the pillars are so vast that the lowestchink in Fig. X. would be quite wide enough to let us passthrough it. Is there then any reason for filling it up ? Yes.It will be remembered that in Chap. IV. § vin. the chief reason w…
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