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spread outward, as their design would promise 

 to any one conversant with the elementary 

 principles of constructive work. "Rustic" 

 arches, compounded of curved branches, and 



Fig. 83.— Arch 



smeared with glossy varnish, are structurally 

 weak and please only those whose eyes are not 

 attuned to beauty of line and appropriateness 

 of form. I raise no objection to a round- 

 topped arch, since it actually reproduces its 



