Devoted to the Quarrying and Cutting of Stone for Architectural Uses. etc. , strong
winds . The failure of the towers of the Niagara Suspension Bridge , which were
completed in 1855 , and replaced a few years ago by iron structures , is ...
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18 ) , also constructed of upright stone slabs or megaliths . Three of the latter
have concentric surrounding walls with a " vestibule " entrance ( ? ) at the south
somewhat like rooms at the bases of towers . One of these is said by Morley and
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Chapter 1 1 The Question raised — Numbers of Round Towers in Ireland —
Tower of Devenish — Swords — Kildare ... respecting Irish Towers — Early
architecture of Ireland— The Stone Age — Early Saints — Preservation of the
Towers ...
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As an evidence of the inferiority of the Irish genuine Christian architecture to the
English of the same period , I would notice the fact that , while several specimens
of Bell - towers of stone of the early Norman period exist in England , there is no ...
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One of the figures in Plate 89 shows a plan of the double iron tower which forms
one of the piers of suspension . ... towers of this last pier is a platform 80 feet in
length by 40 feet in breadth , paved with Purbeck stone , and beneath are
galleries ...
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B. — Under the central rear tower , and the campanile and octagonal towers —
ist , a course of stone seven feet wide and two feet thick ; 2d , a course of stone
five feet wide and two feet thick . C. - Under all the remaining towers — 1st , a ...
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Stone towers are still in use in the Caucasus, and round towers of dry stone,
without mortar, are used in parts of Italy. I)ry-stone ruins are also met with in
Sardinia and in the Balearic Islands. Describing Spain under the Moors,
Washington ...
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The are all of the same peculiar and striking form , and , with building is finished
at the top with a conical roof of the exception of two similar towers in Scotland ,
there stone . are no buildings like them in any part of Christian In the architectural
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The are all of the same peculiar and striking form , and , with building is finished
at the top with a conical roof of the exception of two similar towers in Scotland ,
there stone . are no buildings like them in any part of Christian In the architectural
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A Descriptive and Historical Account of the Town and Gold Field of Charters
Towers, Queensland, with Full and ... 4 level , here for the first time mentioned ,
has been driven in all up to date , 9 ft .; there is , at present , 6 ft . of stone in this
drive .
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Of semicircular - headed doorways cut out of a single stone , we have examples
in the round towers of Glendalough , Co. Wicklow ; Killree , Co. Kilkenny ; Armoy ,
Co. Antrim . The heads of all these are thorough ; but I know of no instance ...
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The light - houses on the New England coast were constructed previous to 1840
in two forms , namely : conical towers of rubble stone masonry , and wooden
frame towers erected upon the roofs of the keepers ' dwellings . The stone towers
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2 TOWERS socle to a thickness of 3 . 00 meters . Thus the massive width of the
wall made use of an earth bank unnecessary for defensive purposes . Although
the stone - socle of the wall is still well preserved , the surviving courses of the
sun ...
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During the first seven years the torical evidence as to their origin and uses , and I
in their stone - walled and stone - roofed towers . annual rate of mortality never
descended to the fearlessly assert that up to the present we have Indeed , it is ...
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It is considered useful to add an EXPLANATION OF GROUND PLANS 1 AND 2
OF RUINS OF ROUND TOWER . A .-- Highest part of ruins of tower ; 7 feet 6
inches above remains of stone floor H and I. B. - Ruins on a level with seventh
step ; 4 ...
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The Gate - house , built by Archbishop Morton about 1490 , consists of an
embattled centre and two immense square towers , of fine red brick with stone
dressings , and a spacious Tudor arched gateway and postern . The towers are
ascended ...
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When this tower was full of stone the absorbing action proved much too great ,
consequently more than half of the filler ... The writer believes stone towers of this
type are not only unnecessary but are prejudicial to the action desired and that a
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Capacious towers of large hewn stone were at every hundred yards much
neglected and many fallen in the ditch. The curtain was of great height perhaps
forty feet from the benne of the ditch entirely built of huge stones strongly
cemented and ...
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In the stone market square, crouching on a small bench, there sat some
mustachioed old men in fur hats. They stared at this war spectacle in the
mountains without exchanging a word, practically without moving. They sat in that
market square ...
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The shape of these round towers seems to be entirely a case of necessity . It
would have been next to impossible to construct them of any other shape but that
of a circle without the use of stone to form the quoins ; and , from the careful and ...
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