. Encyclopædia britannica; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature. S-ili,//.A:,../^/^r,. R O O I 1 St Pauls church in London ; a ihoSel of propriety inits fituation, but by no means a general mo-del of a wooden dome. It refts on the bricli conewithin it ; and Sir Chrillopher hns very ingenicuflymade ufe of it for this cone, as any intelligentperfon will perceive by attending to itsconih-uflion (SeePrice, Plate OP). Fig. 28. reprcfents a dome executed in the RegifterOffice in Edinburgh by James and Robert Adam, andis very agreeable to mechanical

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. Encyclopædia britannica; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature. S-ili,//.A:,../^/^r,. R O O I 1 St Pauls church in London ; a ihoSel of propriety inits fituation, but by no means a general mo-del of a wooden dome. It refts on the bricli conewithin it ; and Sir Chrillopher hns very ingenicuflymade ufe of it for this cone, as any intelligentperfon will perceive by attending to itsconih-uflion (SeePrice, Plate OP). Fig. 28. reprcfents a dome executed in the RegifterOffice in Edinburgh by James and Robert Adam, andis very agreeable to mechanical principles. The fpan is50 feel clear, and the thickneis is only ^i_. We cannot take leave of the fubjefi without takingfome notice of what we have already fpoken of \vith com-mendation by the name of Norman roofs. We calledthem Norrnnn, becaufe they were frequently executedby that people foon after their eltablilliment in Italy andother parts of the fouth of Europe, and became the pre-vailing tafte in all the great baronial caftles. Their ar-chiteils were rivaU to the Saracens ^nd Moors,

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