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French savans, about 1812. The book is in the Congressional Library. The art was very popular in India in times of whose dates we can only guess. The Chinese, also, were early in the field, and excelled in this as they did and do in whatever requires patient toil and persistent, careful manipulation. The Egyptian antiquities referred to embrace many different colored woods and metals. Among the Italian artists, black and white woods were first used, and were called morescoes. John, Abbot of Verona, introduced stained woods, and thereby added to the variety. He also introduced buildings and attempts at perspective representation. Mar′ron. （Pyrotechnics.) A paper box strongly wrapped with twine and filled with powder; it is intended to imitate the report of cannon, and is fired by a piece of quickmatch projecting externally. Mar-seilles′. （Fabric.) A heavy cotton goods, embossed in the loom. Mar-sel′la. （Fabric.) A kind of twilled linen. Mar-si
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mately succeeded. The present bridge has a span of 140 feet, rise of 35 feet, and is a segment of a circle 175 feet in diameter. To avoid the subsidence of the haunches, Edwards made cylindrical openings through them, 3 in each haunch, the lower opening being 9 feet in diameter, the next 6, and the upper one 3 feet. The bridge is widest at its abutments by the amount of 1 foot 9 inches. The width of the bridge at the crown is 11 feet. The longest bridge in England is that built by Bernard Abbot of Burton, over the Trent at Burton, in the twelfth century. It is all of squared freestone, is strong and lofty, is 1,545 feet in length, and consists of 34 arches Most of the 339 bridges of Venice are of stone. The Union arch of the Washington Aqueduct over Cabin John Creek has 220 feet span, is 450 feet long, 20 feet 4 inches wide; the elevation of the roadway above the bed of the stream is 100 feet. Cost to May, 1872, $237,000. Stone-cem′ent. A hard composition of the na