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Rh degree lessened. The perspective elevation of this vault is shown in Fig. 12.

FIG. 12.

Incomplete and awkward as is the system adopted at Morienval, we have here a form of vault construction such as had been before unknown; a form which, though imperfectly carried out, already contains some of the most characteristic structural features, and involves some of the