And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Look up an engineering term "angle of repose". If those are flat stones there is most definitely large timbers supporting them, and after this much time I would not trust them. Look at the one in the background.
I really want to know if that’s really just corbelled or if there are hidden wooden rafters.
ReplyDeleteLook up an engineering term "angle of repose".
DeleteIf those are flat stones there is most definitely large timbers supporting them, and after this much time I would not trust them. Look at the one in the background.
There's a notice on the door, probably to the effect "Danger, do not enter."
DeleteI've come to blow your house down, I'll huff and I'll puff... wait a minute there's something wrong here?
ReplyDeleteI bet it it's damp and prone to mold.
ReplyDeleteSo starkly beautiful.
ReplyDelete.....And it comes with a 'brick' outhouse.... :-)
DeleteIt's sturdy until the earth moves. Then it turns into a big gravestone for anyone inside.
ReplyDeleteThey're still making them this way in Switzerland. This is one of my photos from year before last... https://photos.app.goo.gl/7s57deLR146SvFDN9
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