| Show the i rr 1 ameded the re-turned an american engineer recently from a visit to spain is con-vinced that the durability of moorish aarrechitecture is overestimated in popu-lar opinion that which he examined he found extremely defective from the engineers point of view anndd he believes that where one ancient moorisshh toure remains scores must have perished trheo famous horseshoe aarrcchh and the prevalence of pillars seemingly too deli-cate snttoo do the work imposed upon them he aessccrriibbeess to a fondness of the amlbooorrss lfoorr creating in greeaatt structures the impression of instability a trick the result perhaps of rsomething deeply aitbi mded in tfhe moorish intellect |
