明治の建築家、Josiah Conderの書いた "Landscape Gardening in Japan" のGarden Riversの章の抜粋です。
Such dry river-beds are moreover crossed by rusticated bridges of planks or logs, in the same way as if actual water existed. Many examples may be seen in which the flowing current is actually represented as distinct from the gravelled bed, black stones, broken like macadam, being used for the water, and ordinary white pebbles and boulders for the exposed portions of the beds.
"macadam" が気になる単語です。早速辞書を見ます。
・Vocabulary.com: broken stone used in macadamized roadways:
これだと "macadam" の説明に "macadam" が使われているので変に感じますが、 "macadam" には次ぎの意味もあります。
・a paved surface having compressed layers of broken rocks held together with tar: I remember footsteps painted on the macadam telling us where to go.
・Oxford English Dictionary: Broken stone of even size used in successively compacted layers for surfacing roads and paths, and typically bound with tar or bitumen.
Origin: early 19th century: named after John L. McAdam (1756?1836), the British surveyor who advocated using this material.
語源についてはMerriam-Webster's Online Dictionaryにもっと詳しい説明が次ぎのように書かれていました。
Form of pavement invented by John McAdam. McAdam's road cross-section consisted of a compacted subgrade of crushed granite or greenstone designed to support the load, covered by a surface of light stone to absorb wear and tear and shed water to the drainage ditches. In modern macadam construction, crushed stone or gravel is placed on the compacted base course and bound together with asphalt cement or hot tar. A third layer to fill the spaces is then added and rolled. Cement-sand slurry is sometimes used as the binder.
Such dry river-beds are moreover crossed by rusticated bridges of planks or logs, in the same way as if actual water existed. Many examples may be seen in which the flowing current is actually represented as distinct from the gravelled bed, black stones, broken like macadam, being used for the water, and ordinary white pebbles and boulders for the exposed portions of the beds.
"macadam" が気になる単語です。早速辞書を見ます。
・Vocabulary.com: broken stone used in macadamized roadways:
これだと "macadam" の説明に "macadam" が使われているので変に感じますが、 "macadam" には次ぎの意味もあります。
・a paved surface having compressed layers of broken rocks held together with tar: I remember footsteps painted on the macadam telling us where to go.
・Oxford English Dictionary: Broken stone of even size used in successively compacted layers for surfacing roads and paths, and typically bound with tar or bitumen.
Origin: early 19th century: named after John L. McAdam (1756?1836), the British surveyor who advocated using this material.
語源についてはMerriam-Webster's Online Dictionaryにもっと詳しい説明が次ぎのように書かれていました。
Form of pavement invented by John McAdam. McAdam's road cross-section consisted of a compacted subgrade of crushed granite or greenstone designed to support the load, covered by a surface of light stone to absorb wear and tear and shed water to the drainage ditches. In modern macadam construction, crushed stone or gravel is placed on the compacted base course and bound together with asphalt cement or hot tar. A third layer to fill the spaces is then added and rolled. Cement-sand slurry is sometimes used as the binder.
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