Excerpt from The Builder's Magazine, or an Universal Dictionary for Architects, Carpenters, Masons, Bricklayers, &C, : As Well as for Every Gentleman Who Would Wish to Be a Competent Judge of the Elegant and Necessary Art of BuildingIn the time of Vitruvius, they fhewed at Athens, as a curious relic of antiquity, the roof ofthe Areopagus, made of clay, and at Rome, in the temple of the Capitol, the cottage of Romulus thatched with firaw. After...
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