This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 edition. Excerpt: ...when it can be nade to unite. The Greeks have always preferred walls of orick, except in those cases where they could find silicious stone for the purposes of huilding: for walls of this nature will last for ever, if they are only built on the perpendicular. Hence it is, that the Greeks have built their public ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 edition. Excerpt: ...when it can be nade to unite. The Greeks have always preferred walls of orick, except in those cases where they could find silicious stone for the purposes of huilding: for walls of this nature will last for ever, if they are only built on the perpendicular. Hence it is, that the Greeks have built their public edifices and the palaces of their kings of brick; the wall at Athens, for example, which faces Mount Hymettus; the Temples of lupiter and Hercules at Patrse,89 although the columns and architraves in the interior are of stone; the palace of King Attalua at Trallea; the palace of Croesus at Sardes, now converted into an asylum90 for aged persons; and that of King Mausolus at Halicarnassus; edifices, all of them, still in existence. Huraena and Varro, in their sedileship, had a fine fresco painting, on the plaster of a wall at Lacedsemon, cut away from the bricks, and transported in wooden frames to Rome, for the purpose of adorning the Comitium. Admirable as the work was of itself, it was still more admired after being thus transferred. In Italy also there are walls of brick, at Arretium and Mevania.91 At Rome, there are no buildings of this description, because a wall only a foot-and-a-half in thickness would not support more than a single story; and by public ordinance it has been enacted that no partition should exceed that thickness; nor, indeed, does the peculiar construction of -ur party-walls admit of it. CHAP. 50. (15.) SULPBTJR, AND THE SEVEBAL VABIEIIES OF IT: FOUBTEEN HEMED1E8. Let thus much be deemed sufficient on the subject of bricks, imong the othat kinds of earth, the one of the most singular jature, perhaps, is sulphur, an agent of great power upon other substances. Sulphur is found in the _5Solian Islands, between...
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