More light on the old mill at Newport / . nt and practicability, that heshould endeavor to build, despite 3,000 miles of separation and manyyears of absence, a mill as much as he could, like the old one at Ches-terton. And while quite bearing in mind its general form and arrange-ment, it is entirely probable that he could neither remember the precisedimensions nor well secure the same within the time in which the newmill was needed and that he had to trust to memory, not only for thedimensions and general proportions, but perhaps even as to the numberof columns that were used. This would easil
More light on the old mill at Newport / . nt and practicability, that heshould endeavor to build, despite 3,000 miles of separation and manyyears of absence, a mill as much as he could, like the old one at Ches-terton. And while quite bearing in mind its general form and arrange-ment, it is entirely probable that he could neither remember the precisedimensions nor well secure the same within the time in which the newmill was needed and that he had to trust to memory, not only for thedimensions and general proportions, but perhaps even as to the numberof columns that were used. This would easily account for the millbeing a little greater diameter and a few feet shorter than the Chester-ton mill and having eight columns instead of six. In fact the lattervariation might have been purposely made as making the easier archconstruction; one more within the capabilities of the colonists. Asamatter of tact, according to Mason, the Newport arches are straight fromcolumn to column, forming an octagon at that portion, while the build- 19. THE INIGO JONES STONE , near Leamington, England
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