Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Towle, George M. (George Makepeace), 1841-1893 · Boston : J.R. Osgood and Company · leaf 85
t is four old-fashioned feet in width, or one metrethirty centimetres; a sufficient width to carry down butts ofwine. See here (Fig. 11); the creeping-vault is composed of 66 THE STORY OF A HOUSE. as many superincumbent arches as there are steps; it lookswell, is solid, and easy to build. In short,… … Fig. 11. are already cut. Thus the arches follow the profile of thesteps; and the centring being carried, after the closing ofeach arch, upon the following step, commencing with thelowest, two men can key in five or six of these arches in a PAULS COURSE OF PRACTICAL CONSTRUCTION. 67 day. If there…
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