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THE CUNARDER "AQUITANIA"
In a town like Prague, for example, an old enactment imposes a wall-thickness of 14 inches at the top storey of houses, with an additional projection of 41⁄2 inches for each storey below, which means that the thicknesses of walls of buildings may easily be nearly 5 feet on the ground floor. To-day, the construction of facades in which soft stone is used in large blocks leads to this absurd result―that the windows, originally intended to introduce light, are flanked by deep embrasures which completely thwart the intention.
On the valuable ground of our great cities, you can still see masses of masonry rising as foundations for a building, although simple concrete piles would be equally effective.
