A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . ?7:^.L. V of an American one. Figure 9 shows the Rus-sian method of prei)aring the end of the log,which is done before the building is log houses sometimes reached huge pro-portions, as in the noted Baranoff Castle thatformerly stood at Sitka. Building of this kind is the natural resort of LOG HOUSE persons of small mechanical skill or of smallmeans, in a country where large trees are abun-. dant. Vitruvius (Book II., Ch. 1) mentionsthem as having been in use in the Caucasus. InRussia, with th
A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . ?7:^.L. V of an American one. Figure 9 shows the Rus-sian method of prei)aring the end of the log,which is done before the building is log houses sometimes reached huge pro-portions, as in the noted Baranoff Castle thatformerly stood at Sitka. Building of this kind is the natural resort of LOG HOUSE persons of small mechanical skill or of smallmeans, in a country where large trees are abun-. dant. Vitruvius (Book II., Ch. 1) mentionsthem as having been in use in the Caucasus. InRussia, with the more slowly developing physicalcivilization of thecountry, such structures have . lingered later, andhave received asomewhat deco-rative treatment,in connection withwhich it is wellto study the Swisssolid-timbered houses,land. Architecture of.)
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