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 Secondary Forms. '35 altitude and proportional salience, so as to bring it in accord with the other members of the architecture. But, whatever the material employed, wood or brick, the difficulties of execution would have been wellnigh insurmountable. On the other hand, Fig. 63. -Fa9ade of the T.igh-i-Boslan. Fla.ndin and CosiK, Ptru atuuiine, Plalc gradini could be carried up to any height without difficulty, by simply increasing the number of bricks (laid out flat-wise), so as to make them correspond with the dimensions of the building, whilst their broken line was not void of elegance. The clay of which they were composed might be warm with colour or left Digitized by Google