Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Towle, George M. (George Makepeace), 1841-1893 · Boston : J.R. Osgood and Company · leaf 225
this course must not arrest the rain-water, andthus provoke the penetration of moisture in the walls ; onthe contrary, it must be so profiled as to divert this humidity,so that it shall not rot the wood. Here, then, you see at A(Fig. 45) how architects, who thought more of satisfying thenecessities…
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