 ... balls let fall from a considerable height. With such difficulties as these to contend with it is not surprising that the building should have been considered a wonder when completed, and that people coming to Boston from a distance made it a point...  Stones for Building and Decoration - Seite 327von George Perkins Merrill - 1891 - 453 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1860 - 490 Seiten
...People coming from a distance made it an object to see and admire this great structure. The wonder was that stone enough could be found in the vicinity of...like it could not be found to build such another. The stone-trade and stone-quarrying remained nearly in the same condition, it is believed, until about... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1860 - 472 Seiten
...People coming from a distance made it an object to see and admire this great structure. The wonder was that stone enough could be found in the vicinity of...like it could not be found to build such another. The stone-trade and stone-quarrying remained nearly in the same condition, it is believed, until about... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1889 - 908 Seiten
...completed, and that people coming to Boston from a distance made it a point to see and admire this great structure. The wonder, however, was not that the granite...granite and other hard stone the tools ordinarily used are the set or pitching chisel, thespalling hammer, pcan hammer, bush hammer, hand hammer, chisel,... | |
 | George Perkins Merrill - 1889 - 414 Seiten
...completed, and that people coming to Boston from a distance made it a point to see and admire this great structure. The wonder, however, was not that the granite...granite and other hard stone the tools ordinarily used are the set or pitehing chisel, thespalling hammer, pean hammer, bush hammer, hand hammer, chisel,... | |
 | United States National Museum - 1889 - 916 Seiten
...coming to Boston from a distance made it a point to see and admire this great structure. The wouder, however, was not that the granite could be broken...granite and other hard stone the tools ordinarily used are the set or pitching chisel, thespalliug hammer, peau hammer, bush hammer, hand hammer, chisel,... | |
 | Arthur Wellington Brayley - 1913 - 276 Seiten
...fit for the hammer to construct such an entire building. But it seemed to be universally concluded that enough more like it could not be found to build such another. "At some time between the end of the first quarter and the middle of the eighteenth century, that is,... | |
 | James Wheelock Spring - 1927 - 296 Seiten
...fit for the hammer to construct such an entire building. But it seemed to be universally concluded that enough more like it could not be found to build such another." The method of splitting granite by the use of wedges as we do today, was apparently not known at the... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1860 - 468 Seiten
...this great structure. The wonder was that stone enough could be found in the vicinity of Boston'fit for the hammer to construct such an entire building....like it could not be found to build such another. The stone-trade and stone-quarrying remained nearly in the same condition, it is believed, until about... | |
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