Six sorts of Masonry, [48,] [49.] Precautions to be used in binding the Walls, to strengthen them with Wood, [50.] That they be exact perpendicular, [51.] to ease them of their own weight, by Timber or Arches over doors and windows, and by Butresses in the earth, [53.]
Art. 5. Of Flooring and Ceiling, [54.]
Of Flooring upon the Ground, [54.] between Stories, [55.] Open to the Air as Terrass, &c., [57.] the Roof, 58. Cornice, 59.
Art. 6. Of Plaistering, [59.]
For great Walls, For Fresco, [60.] for Partitions, [61.] For moist places, [61.]
Chap. III. Of the Convenience of Fabricks.
Art. 1. Of convenient Scituation, [63.]
That a place be convenient, it ought to be fertile, accessible, in a wholsom Air, not on low Ground or marshy, [64.] How to know a wholsom Climate, [65.]
Art. 2. Of the Form and Scituation of the Building, [65.]
The Streets and Houses of a City to be the most advantagiously expos'd in respect to the Heavens and Wind, [65,] [66.] The scituation of each Room to be according to the use of it; of Dining-rooms, Libraries, Closets, &c. [67,] [68.]