Scientific American Volume 02 Number 34 (May 1847) . ng,and adorned on the side walls with statues,columns, niches* and other ornaments ; butthose of the mosques, and of other Arabian,and even Moorish buildings, are shallow, andmade in the same manner as doors are at pres-ent. Besides, Swinburne observes, that amongthe different Arabian capitals which he saw,he found none resembling, in design and ar-rangement, those which we find in the Gothicchurches of England and France. The Moor-ish architecture appears in all its splendor inthe ancient palace of the Mohommedan mon-archs at Grenada, which
Scientific American Volume 02 Number 34 (May 1847) . ng,and adorned on the side walls with statues,columns, niches* and other ornaments ; butthose of the mosques, and of other Arabian,and even Moorish buildings, are shallow, andmade in the same manner as doors are at pres-ent. Besides, Swinburne observes, that amongthe different Arabian capitals which he saw,he found none resembling, in design and ar-rangement, those which we find in the Gothicchurches of England and France. The Moor-ish architecture appears in all its splendor inthe ancient palace of the Mohommedan mon-archs at Grenada, which is called the Alham-bra, or red house, and which resemblesmore a fairy palace than a work of humanhands. The character of the Arabian archi-tecture was lightness and splendor. Rich or-naments, and lightness in the single parts,ren-«ier it agreeable to the eye. The modern Goth-ic architecture, which originated in the at-tempts of Byzantine artists to cover the coarse-ness and heaviness of the old Gothic by an ap- HAMMONDS ROTARY ENGINE—Figure been recently invented—only a small numberof which, have been published however,—itmay be remarked that each one has claims topearance of lightness, excites the imagination j some original and excellent points, though itby its richly adorned arches, its distant per- may De doubtful whether any one has whollyspective, and its religious dimness, produced I escaped all the objectionable difficulties. We Introduction.—The inventing communi- j ering a little more than half the periphery.—ty appear determined to supersede the recip- j D, groove head through which the steam d,rocating steam engine, by the rotatory in some passes. E E, gates in one steam groove tore-form ; and in all the various plans which have ceive the pressure of the steam as they pass under the groove head. F F, gates situatedintermediately in the other steam groove ; thegates are forced up alternately by steam com- by its painted windows. It retained, from the
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