The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 138
ons, 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 thetask, which nevertheless is said to have requiredfifty years of labour before… … Fig. 29.—Plan of walls of Cuzco. no other country of the world before the inventionof gunpowder (Fig. 29). The caravansaries, above mentioned, contain thebest masonry built under the Incas. It consists oflarge square blocks laid in even horizontal courseswith such nicety that they are as perfect…
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