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                                                                      	All other forms of massive arrangement of materials
                                                                      for the support of vertical pressure are to be consider-
                                                                      ed under the general head of Pier supports.
                                                                      All provisions made to enable a wall to bear any kind of
                                                                      lateral pressure are to be considered under the general
                                                                      head of Buttress supports
                                                                      When the obtaining of seclusion or protection from
	x.  Except when the scale of the building would render the           weather is a function of the wall as well as that of ver-
mass of necessary for a safe fine support, inconvenient               tical support, the simplest and best form will necessarily
in internal arrangements.                                             be that of pillar or pier support with veils between the
                                                                      pi[u]llars  (x)  When resistance of violence is addedto
                                                                      these functions the necessarily uncreased thickness of the
                                                                      wall may render the roof entirely subordinate;  the wall
                                                                      being much more than adequate to the weight it has to bear;
                                                                      Or the roof may be altogether absent:
                                                                      Our work therefore, in considering the walls of buildings
                                                                      will be first, an analysis of the general idea of pier
                                                                      or pillar support.
                                                                      Secondly an analysis of the mode of unison of pier or
                                                                      pillar support wit[l]h wall veils
                                                                      Thirdly, a consideration of the forms of walls whose mass
                                                                      renders their function of vertical support subordinate
                                                                      Fourthly, the analysis of the general side of Buttress
                                                                      support

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