Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Towle, George M. (George Makepeace), 1841-1893 · Boston : J.R. Osgood and Company · leaf 82
uld be intact, and its junctionswould be as hard as the stone itself. You will easily under-stand that, when the water has little by little diluted and lique-fied the mortar of the layers and that joined to the base of awall, the stones of which it is composed settle, and so all therest of the… … Fig. 9. You see that the cellar wall which receives the vault isvery thick, much thicker than the ground-floor wall. Thelatter is only sixty centimetres in thickness, whilst this wall 64 THE STORY OF A HOUSE. is nearly a metre. This additional thickness is given to theinterior mainly to receive…
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