A treatise on architecture and building construction (1899)
International Correspondence Schools · Scranton, The Colliery engineer co. · leaf 65
ing the foundation to thethickness figured on theplans; and d, the wall ofthe building carried up toits full height and thick-ness, and resting partly onthe thin wall r, and partlyon the ledge of rock b. In a wall so built, the water will find its way eitherthrough the imperceptible seams of the… … Fig. 39. MASONRY. 55 the ledge—but in no way bonded to it—would separate fromit and fall away, leaving the superincumbent masonry mostinsecurely supported. There is, besides, the certainty that thefoundation wall, built partly on unyielding rock, and partly onsofter soil, will settle unequally, and…
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