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The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)

Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 167

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m** Fig. 43.—Cyclopean masonry. ment or construction. That of the first or earliestperiod consists of immense rough-hewn lumps, hav-ing interstices filled with smaller stones (Fig. 42); 144 GREECE. … that of the second is composed of huge polygonalblocks so exquisitely jointed that the lines of divis-ion are scarcely visible at a distance (Fig 43); while to the third divis-__, LI ion are ascribed (<3_I^ ^ tne wa^s f°rmed of quadrangular stones laid in hori-zontal courses, butwith joints…

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