. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 400 THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. [OOTOBKR, manists tliemselvps, at least intelligent and educated ones, would now be ashamed of. The Society's organ, Tlie Ecclenwlogist, is now vastly laudatory towards that ultra-Roman Catliulic gentleman Mr. A. \V. Pugin, whom it styles " the great master of Christian device," albeit the specimen of his talent wliich calls forth that eulogy, vix. the " new and beautiful seal" of the Camden Society, is by no
. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 400 THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. [OOTOBKR, manists tliemselvps, at least intelligent and educated ones, would now be ashamed of. The Society's organ, Tlie Ecclenwlogist, is now vastly laudatory towards that ultra-Roman Catliulic gentleman Mr. A. \V. Pugin, whom it styles " the great master of Christian device," albeit the specimen of his talent wliich calls forth that eulogy, vix. the " new and beautiful seal" of the Camden Society, is by no means remarkable for either taste or ingenuity of design, or fur aught so much as the conspicuous introduction of that symbol of Romanism —the "Mother of God and the Infant;" the very ostentatious adop- tion of which, under their own band and seal as it were, is either ex- ceedingly bold or exceedingly indiscreet, and sufficient to convict them either of both temerity and effrontery, or else of besotted stupidity. I remain, &c., AREAS OF CUTTINGS AND EMBANKMENTS. Sir,—In the August number of your excellent Journal there is an article, taken from the Journal of the Franklin Institute aud written by me, on Short Methods of Calculating correctly the Sectional Areas of Excavations or Embankments, in copying the illustration of which an error has been made, which may cause difficulty in demonstrating the rules. In the Journal of the Institute the irregular pentagon is divided into four triangles, by dotted lines drawn from the point marked f to the points a and c, but in the copy the position of the lines is reversed, and they are incorrectly drawn as 6 e and 5 g, which division of the figure is not applicable to the purpose intended. Respectfully yours, Philadelphia, U. S. of America, S. W. Roberts, C. E. Sept. 1IM, 1844. We have given the diagram corrected together with the rule. Multiply the extreme width of the excavation, or embankment, measured horizont
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