Hoccuminspeciemvarietatemqueopusdeformenonestalternistrabibusacsaxis,quaerectislineissuosordinesservant,tumadutilitatemetdefensionemurbiumsummamhabetopportunitatem,quodetabincendiolapisetabarietemateriadefendit,quaeperpetuistrabibuspedesquadragenosplerumqueintrorsusrevinctanequeperrumpinequedistrahipotest.
This work, with respect to appearance and variety, is not unsightly, owing to the alternate rows of beams and stones, which preserve their order in right lines; and, besides, it possesses great advantages as regards utility and the defense of cities; for the stone protects it from fire, and the wood from the battering ram, since it [the wood] being mortised in the inside with rows of beams, generally forty feet each in length, can neither be broken through nor torn asunder.
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