Bélidor, Bernard Forest de, La science des ingenieurs dans la conduite des travaux de fortification et d' architecture civile

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              de ne s’y enfoncer que le moins qu’on pourra, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s5056" xml:space="preserve">enſuite fonder
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              hardiment & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s5057" xml:space="preserve">ſans autre ſujetion que celle que nous allons décrire.</s>
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              <s xml:id="echoid-s5059" xml:space="preserve">Ayant tracé les allignemens & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s5060" xml:space="preserve">fait les amas de matériaux neceſ-
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                <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0239-01" xlink:href="note-0239-01a" xml:space="preserve">Fondation
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                ſur le ſable
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                boüillant.</note>
              ſaires, on ne découvrira le terrain qu’à meſure qu’on fera la maçon-
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              nerie; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s5061" xml:space="preserve">c’eſt-à-dire que ſi on peut faire par jour 6 toiſes courantes
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              de fondemens, on n’en découvrira pas davantage; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s5062" xml:space="preserve">enſuite l’on aſ-
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              ſeoira avec le plus de diligence qu’il ſera poſſible une premiere aſſiſe
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              de gros libages plats, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s5063" xml:space="preserve">ſur celle-ci une autre bien arrangée à joints
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              recouverts en bain de bon mortier compoſé de terraſſe ou bien de
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              cendrée de Tournay, ſur cette ſeconde une toiſiéme, ainſi de ſuite
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              avec toute la promptitude poſſible, pour ne pas donner le tems
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              aux ſources d’innonder le travail, comme cela eſt aſſés ordinaire. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s5064" xml:space="preserve">Il
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              arrive quelquefois que l’on voit flotter les premieres aſſiſes, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s5065" xml:space="preserve">que
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              la Maçonnerie ſemble ne pouvoir prendre conſiſtance; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s5066" xml:space="preserve">mais il ne
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              faut pas s’en allarmer, aller ſon train, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s5067" xml:space="preserve">continuer toûjours s’il eſt
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              poſſible ſans interruption, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s5068" xml:space="preserve">quelque tems après la Maçonnerie
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              s’affermira comme ſi elle étoit établie ſur le roc: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s5069" xml:space="preserve">c’eſt pourquoi l’on
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              peut élever le reſte ſans aprehender que l’ouvrage manque par le
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              pied, ni que les fondemens s’enfoncent guéres plus, après avoir
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              reçûs toute leur charge, qu’ils l’étoient au commencement; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s5070" xml:space="preserve">il faut
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              ſeulement prendre garde ſur toute choſe de ne pas creuſer autour,
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              crainte d’y attirer l’eau de quelque ſource qui pourroit dégravoïer
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              la Maçonnerie, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s5071" xml:space="preserve">cauſer de grands dommages: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s5072" xml:space="preserve">enfin, je dirai pour
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              juſtifier cette maniere de fonder, qu’on ne s’y prend pas autrement
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              à Douay, Lille, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s5073" xml:space="preserve">Bethune, quand il eſt queſtion de revêtir quel-
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              que ouvrage de Fortification dans un terrain comme celui-ci qui y
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              eſt aſſés ordinaire.</s>
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              <s xml:id="echoid-s5075" xml:space="preserve">A Arras & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s5076" xml:space="preserve">à Bethune il y a encore un terrain tourbeux qu’il
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              eſt neceſſaire de connoître pour pouvoir y fonder hardiment: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s5077" xml:space="preserve">ayant
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              cela de particulier, que dès qu’on veut creuſer un peu avant, il
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              en ſort une quantité d’eau prodigieuſe. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s5078" xml:space="preserve">Après avoir tenté toutes
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              ſortes de voyes, on a trouvé que le plus court & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s5079" xml:space="preserve">le plus ſûr parti
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              étoit d’y fonder hardiment avec de bons matériaux, ne s’enfonçant
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              que le moins qu’il eſt poſſible ſans employer ni grillage, ni pilots,
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              & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s5080" xml:space="preserve">l’ouvrage ſe maintient ferme & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s5081" xml:space="preserve">ſolide ſans courir aucun riſque.</s>
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              <s xml:id="echoid-s5083" xml:space="preserve">Quand on rencontre de ſemblables terrains que l’on ne connoît
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              point parfaitement, il eſt bon de ne le ſonder qu’à une certaine diſ-
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              tance de l’endroit où on le veut travailler, parce que ſi l’on venoit
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              à creuſer trop avant, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s5084" xml:space="preserve">qu’il en ſortit une grande quantité d’eau, on
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              n’en ſera pas incommodé. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s5085" xml:space="preserve">C’eſtici où je crois qu’on pourroit ſe ſer-
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              vir mieux que par-tout ailleurs de la Maçonnerie de pierrées dont </s>
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