. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. nd with much deferenceto his judgment, not having ourselves seen it, we cannot easily believe to be of such anti-quity. Its appearance is so truly lloman, that we must be permitted to doubt the truth ofhis conjecture. We are, moreover, fortified in the opinion we entertain by the principleson which the style of Egyptian architecture is founded, which are totally at variance withthe use of the arch. We have ventured to transfer this {Jig. 4<».) to
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. nd with much deferenceto his judgment, not having ourselves seen it, we cannot easily believe to be of such anti-quity. Its appearance is so truly lloman, that we must be permitted to doubt the truth ofhis conjecture. We are, moreover, fortified in the opinion we entertain by the principleson which the style of Egyptian architecture is founded, which are totally at variance withthe use of the arch. We have ventured to transfer this {Jig. 4<».) to our pages, that thereader may form a judgment on the subject, as well as ourselves. We will only add, thatthe reasons assigned by Rlr. W. for the Egyptians not preferring such a mode of con-struction as the arch, because of the difficulty of repairing it when injured, and the con-se(juences attending the decay of a single block, are not of any weight with us, because,practically, there is an easy mode of accomj)lishing such rc])air. And, again, the argu-ment that the superincumbent weight ajiplied to an arch in such a case as that liefore. CHAF. H. EGYPTIAN. 35 ^^
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