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the platform is 167 feet above the surface of the water, whichruns at the bottom of the valley. This platform is suspendedfrom four iron-wire ropes, two on each side of the bridge.The ropes are composed of 80 wires, each -A of an inch dia-meter, tied up by coils of wire at regular intervals ; thesechain-ropes are made fast to the rock on either side, afterpassing over the tops of the towers. Suspension rods arethen hung upon the chain-ropes, to which the joists formingthe roadway are fixed ; the cost of this magnificent and trulywonderful structure did not amount to more than £24,000.

SWALLOW-TAIL, a particular way of fastening toge-

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ther two pieces of timber, so strongly, that they cannotasunder. It is much the same as Dove-tail.

SWELLED COLUMN. See Column.

SYMBOLICAL COLUMN. See Column. to

SYMMETRY , (from the Greek, aw, with, and P £ /^ v eenmeasure ,) the harmony, proportion, or uniformity Dthe parts of a building and the whole. . ^ bid

SYSTYLE, a building where the pillars stand t'" < j i] ’ rnn i-not quite so thick as in the pycnostyle, the interc ^ t j, eation being only two diameters, or four modules,columns.

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TABERN, a local word for a cellar.

TABERNACLE, a casket composed of marble, preciousstones, or metal, placed upon the altar in churches, and em-ployed to contain the consecrated wafer ; also any casket forcontaining holy relics, vessels, &c. The term is further appliedto decorated niches, with enriched canopies, &c.; a collectionof such work is termed Tabernacle-work.

TABLE, or Tablet, a flat surface or panel of variousforms, but usually rectangular, either plain, or charged withornament of some kind. They are frequently made to pro-ject from the wall, and are termed raised tables.

The term is also applied to continuous horizontal mould-ings ; thus we have bench, corbel, water tables, SfC.

Table Corbel, a curious horizontal ornament, used, inGothic architecture, for a cornice.

Table, Projecting, as its name imports, is a table project-ing from the naked of a wall.

Table, Raised, the same as Projecting Table.

Table, Raking, one that is not perpendicular to thehorizon.

Table, Rusticated, a table of which the surface is rough,from being broken with the hammer, frosted, or vermi-culated.

Table, Water, one that inclines to the horizon, for throw-ing off water; this kind is mostly used in buttresses, andother parts of Gothic edifices.

Table, in perspective, the same as the plane of the pic-ture, being the paper or canvass on which a perspectivedrawing is made, usually perpendicular to the horizon. Inthe theory of perspective, it is supposed to be transparent,for the more easily comprehending the subject.

Table of Glass, in glass-works, and among glaziers, acircular plate of glass, being its original form, before it is cut,or divided into squares. Twenty-four tables make a case.

Tabled, a term applied to anything cut into tables.

TABLET, the same as Table.

TABLING, a term used in Scotland for the coping of thewall of very common houses ; also a method of scarfingtimbers.

TACKS, small nails, for fastening and stretching clothupon a board, &c.

TiENIA, or Tenia, a small square fillet at the top of thearchitrave, in the Doric capital.

TAIL, Swallow. See Swallow-tail.

Taii.-in, to fasten anything into a wall at one end, as thesteps of a stair; this expression is similar to what, in joinery,is called housing.

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cima-recta or cima-reversaa kind of astragal, used as a crownin'used in England.

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according to some au ^ . ga crowning. ’I he vv

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ends of joists are fastened, in order to avoid flues.

TAILING, the part of a projecting stone, or brick,in a wall. _ . ..-(ion of

TAILOIR, a term used by some writers, in im 1the French, for the Abacus . .,] ier th e

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“ * ^ter 'I battering , aid the wall itseU

Pendicul ar 0 f j ta ; )a g ( ; en th f wall inclines beyond the pf

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or ^face wS^S’ tangere, to touch,) in geometry,

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mwn, touching the / a PP be d in trigonometry to the

,e arc, and terminated’!^ 1 ? 6rence at * he commencementti‘e centre and the e„,i V t le se eant, which is drawn thr a

i'ANK, a him? “ the arc -

'^’APERIJsiq^ Vessel > or reservoir, to contain water. .

contained between two”' eXprcssive of the nature of a s ’other. J'hus, the w j °PP osl( e planes inclined towardstn ’d, the cone and Py rar nid, the frustum of a P)

solids. and th <t frustum of a cone, are all t«P er ' D

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of ancient houses^ 33 decorative coverings to tb

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