Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Towle, George M. (George Makepeace), 1841-1893 · Boston : J.R. Osgood and Company · leaf 74
s, and a concealed current. If von make a cellaror foundation wall descending below this sheet of water, thelatter will wash against it, will penetrate it, whatever youmay do, and will fill your cellars. That is why it will benecessary, in this case, to turn aside this sheet of water, in PAULS… … Fig. 6. Let A B be the clay-bed, C D the gravel or sand bedwhich water can penetrate. There will be formed a sheet ofrunning water, after every shower, from E to F. This sheetwill be arrested by the foundation or cellar wall G H, andwill soon penetrate it, since it can neither remount nor trav-erse…
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