Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · New York: John Wiley · leaf 95
hose angular gaps or breches de Roland in Fig. X. Our firstimpulse would be to cut them open ; but we cannot do this, orour piers are unsafe. We have but one other resource, to fillthem up until we have a floor wide enough to let us pass easily :this we may perhaps obtain at the first ledge, we are… … Fig. XI. is the arrangement of Fig. X. so treated. § vii. But suppose the pillars are so vast that the lowest chinkin Fig. X. would be quite wide enough to let us pass through it.Is there then any reason for filling it up ? Yes. It will beremembered that in Chap. IV. § vm. the chief reason for…
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