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 thefe rude cfi'ays, buildings of wood were introduced, and thefe fuggelted the ideas of columns and architraves. But the workmen became every day more indu¿rious and more expert. Infiead of thofe ¿ight huts which fatisfied them at firf't, they began to ereél: great walls of {tone and brick upon folid foundations, and to cover them with boards and tiles. And, in procefs of time, their refieétions, founded on experience, led them to difcover the jail: rules of proportion.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.