Identifier: morelightonoldmi00shel (find matches)
Title: More light on the old mill at Newport /
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Shelton, F. H
Subjects: Windmills
Publisher: (S.l. : s.n.)
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation

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Chesterton Mill.Vertical section . between columns.
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Newport mill - restored.Vertical section. because of having eight columns instead of six ; because of being of veryrough construction instead of finished ; because of being of the claimedstyle oi the 10th century in place of the 17th century and because therough columns at Newport are somewhat offset instead of being directlyunder the finished circular wall above as at Chesterton. Also that thisopen arch structure was not a windmill form ; that a fireplace was nota windmill feature and that the wall openings for flooring timbers, etc.,were 1 iter modifications. The argument of the windmill believers is that the early colonistsmade special note of all local and unusual objects and that it is im-possible to conceive of such a structure built by previous races alreadyexisting there upon their advent without any note or reference beingmade to it; that as to the baptistry theory, the fact that a small buildingor structure was circular does not make it follow that its use could onlybe that

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