. An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . these mate-rials are found. The Etruscans and the primitive Eomanslived in wooden houses; a house cannot well be built of stone orbrick without mortar, which had not then been brought intouse. Some of the tombs of the Etruscans bear decisive evi-dence to the same fact; although cut out of the solid rock, theyare cut in imitation of wood-en beams and posts, as atVeii. The same observa-tions, as to natural construc-tion and the absence ofcement or mortar, are saidto apply to Egypt, to Greece,and to the East generally. We do not find either
. An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . these mate-rials are found. The Etruscans and the primitive Eomanslived in wooden houses; a house cannot well be built of stone orbrick without mortar, which had not then been brought intouse. Some of the tombs of the Etruscans bear decisive evi-dence to the same fact; although cut out of the solid rock, theyare cut in imitation of wood-en beams and posts, as atVeii. The same observa-tions, as to natural construc-tion and the absence ofcement or mortar, are saidto apply to Egypt, to Greece,and to the East generally. We do not find either sawnstone or lime-mortar untila later period. In the laterEtruscan work, the stoneappears to have been sawnbefore the use of lime-mortaror cement, and these stonesare fitted together in themost admirable manner. The remains of the second 186. Wall of tlie Latins on the Aven-Wall of Eome, which en- tine, with Arch inserted, closed the two hills in one City, (that is, the Palatine and theHill of Saturn, afterwards called the Capitoline Hill,) are of the. ITALY EOME, same construction, of large blocks of tufa cut with the part of this was used for the eastern boundary of the Forumof Augustus, and was much altered in the time of that wall of travertine, of one-third its height and thickness, isinserted into it at a right angle at the south end. There areremains of another part of this second wall of Eome on the bankof the Tiber, called the Pulchrum Littus, in which an openingis left for the mouth of one branch of the small river Almo, nowused for the Marrana, or mill-stream. Another opening hasbeen made in this wall a little higher up the stream, for themouth of the Cloaca Maxima, with a triple arch of the Gabiistone, (called Sperone,) inserted in the old wall of tufa. Thereare remains of this second wall of Eome also on the westernside of the Palatine Hill, at a low level, quite distinct from thewall of Eoma Quadrata on the summit, and of a different andlater const
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