. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. olour, from its deepest to its weakest of Lime. A denomination of measure which, in some places, is equal to thirty-five, in others to twenty-five, heaped bushels or bags, the latter being the quantityabout London, that is, one hundred pecks. The hundred is also used for numbering,thus deals are sold by the long hundred, or six score. Pales and laths are sold at fivescore to the hundred if five feet long, and six score if only three fee
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. olour, from its deepest to its weakest of Lime. A denomination of measure which, in some places, is equal to thirty-five, in others to twenty-five, heaped bushels or bags, the latter being the quantityabout London, that is, one hundred pecks. The hundred is also used for numbering,thus deals are sold by the long hundred, or six score. Pales and laths are sold at fivescore to the hundred if five feet long, and six score if only three feet long. The hundredweight is 112 lbs. avoirdupois; the long hundred weight is 120 lbs. ; so that the formeris to the latter as -93333 to , double and single. A term applied to sashes ; the first when both the upperand lower sash are balanced by weights, for raising and depressing ; and the last whenonly one, usually the lower one, is balanced over the A violent storm of wind, calculated at a velocity of from 80 to 100 niilobper hour ; and to exercise & force of from SlA to 49 lbs. per superficial foot. In places. Fig. 1409. Hdtel de Cluny, Paris. where buildings are subject to destructive hurricanes, the prec<tutions to be observedhave been described in the Papers, Sec, of the Corps of Koyal Engineers, new series,1851, vol. i. The whole of the roof should be fixed down to the wall-plate, and thewall-plate to the wall; the wall being made strong enough to resist the powerful cur-rent of air rushing against it. Where buildings are of wood, the framework should betied into the ground, or into stone piers fixed in the ground. During the hurricane atIJarbadoes, on the 11th August. 1831, buildings having substantial partitions at shortintervals, withstood the blast, whilst others without them were blown down. Insidebuttresses would answer the purpose. Shutters should be made to open on pivots at topand bottom. Joists used in galleries and verandahs, when l
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