CHAPTER VI. 



BODY OF THE HOUSE CONTINUED. 



The Arms. The Hand. Uses of the Hand. 



ARMS. These are not posts, for, in their 

 natural position, they support nothing. They 

 are not braces, for they strengthen no part of 

 the frame. They are properly appendages, 

 but they are very convenient ones ; and though 

 they can be torn off without spoiling the 

 building, their loss very much injures it. .They 

 seem to answer, in some good degree, the, pur- 

 poses of stairs, ladders, tackles, pulleys, and 

 other machinery for raising things from the 

 ground, and conveying them to the upper part 

 of a building. These appendages we may as 

 well at once call them the arms and hands 

 however, answer a much better purpose than 

 any of those. 

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