. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. 626 THEORY or AUCHITFXTUIIE. Book 11. be slunji; for increasing tlie stiHiicssof llie tie beam ad infinitum in theory,but not in practice, because theconi-pressibility of the fibres of timber isconsiderable in lines perpendicularto their direction, and the contractionand expansion of metal places a limitto its. use. This compression of tim-

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