The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 137
tory, though an extra room issuperimposed at intervals above the doorways, givingit an embattled appearance. The masonry consists of well-fitted polygonalstones, which argues an ignorance of iron, for withthe introduction of iron polygonal masonry seemsalways to have disappeared in other countries.… … Fig. 23.—The walls of Cuzco. eighl to t«n feel and weighs from fifteen to twentytons, the adjustmenl is so perfect without the aid of cement that a knife blade can with difficulty be in-setted bet ween the j tints. FORTIFICATIONS. CARAVANSARIES, ETC. 115 Twenty thousand men were employed upon…
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