Note 14 — Chapter V · BROWN VILLAGES, WHITE TOWNS, AND A GREY CITY

They are cut with a cross-chiselled margin, and rough outstanding rustic work in the centre. Their size and weight are enormous. One writer, whose sense of humour is hardly equal to his knowledge of Scripture, in describing them is carried away into the statement that “the Jewish architects, taught by their Phœnician neighbours, bestowed special care upon the corners of their great buildings. They show a finish, a solidity, and choice of material superior to other parts.... And how beautifully expressive is the language of the Psalmist, ‘our daughters are corner-stones, polished after the similitude of a palace’—one of the corner-stones of this angle weighs over a hundred tons”!