The lateen sail is triangular or a quadrilateral which is almost triangular, the former being the type used by the Byzantines.

A foundation sustains the superstructure; an animal sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight.

On this score, monastics are will-positioned, in that one of the purposes of monastic work was to recreate the garden of paradise. The Cistercians, however, have not made a move to undrain the swamps.

On each side the glass hung one of the large engravings; another over the secretary, facing the window, and the fourth, which for some time seemed a supernumerary, over the door.