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df a foot and a half thick (unlef^ they wei'e /)/^/?^/^) or 
TripUnthij) cannot bear, up above one Story ; but in fo vaft 
and M; jefticka City (as old l{ome) there ought to be in- 
numerable habitations^ therefore when a plain Area, or 
building of one Story could not receive fuch a multitude 
to dwell in. the City,, thereforethe thingit ftlf did compel 
them to it, that the houfes might- be raifed higher^ and 
therefore they had flrange contrivances cf out jetting, and 
ovei hanging StorieSi-, and; Belconies (3c i. which reafbns 
if rightly confidered are great miftakes : Gur men at this 
day have taught the world bttter.things ; and have demon- 
ftrated that: a flrm Building may be railed to many Stories 
height upon, a foot and a half thick Wall ; The Overfighc 
of the l{pmms wdi the vaft bignefs of their Bricks for the 
klTerthe Biick the firmer the work, there being much 
greater firmnefs in a multitude of Angles, asm*uft bepro^ 
d'uced by a fmall Brick, then in a right line 5 and this is 
the reafon of theftrength of Buttreffes, and Multangular 
Towers^^. 
Thofe Bricks are about feventeen Inches ofourmea- 
fure long, and about eleven Inches broad^ and two Inches: 
and a half thick. This (having cauftd feveral of them 
to be carefully meafured) I give in round numbers, and 
do find them to agree very well with the notion of thei(o- 
man foot, which the learned Antiquary Greaves haslefc 
us ; vi^. oi'Ms being about half an Inch lefs than oursj they 
feem to have flirunk in the bakeing, more in the breadth 
then in the length ; which is but reafbnable, becaufeof 
itseafier yeilding that way ^ andfo, for the fame reafon^ 
more in thicknefs;for we fupppfe them to ha¥e been defigja- 
ed in the Mould for three Roman Inches; . 'mm. 
Now that this was properly thei(?f2^^?2 Brick we lia%^^ 
the Teftimony of l^itmvmy^ ' znd^^^ 
fiunt Laieruin ina^eiiera ^ unum quod Greece pidoron ap^ 
pellatur quo nofi'ri utunt^ur &LC i And oi Tlmy y genera eo'^ 
ruin triUy Didoron^ quo uii^ur» longum fefqui pede^ la^ 
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