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a final touch

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a stone that forms the top of wall or building

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Using larger stones at the bottom and smaller stones at the top (except for the copestones) serves a few purposes: Small stones on top of big stones are less likely to settle than the opposite arrangement; it's easier and less dangerous to use large stones near the base versus lifting them high onto the wall; and, because you should place stones lengthwise into the wall, the larger stones will need the additional width at the base to fit properly.

When you've built the wall even with the top course of the section of wall you're tying into, or to your desired height minus the average height of your coping material, you're ready to add your copestones. Make the final course before the coping as level as possible.

First, you'll need to set a string line for the copestones. Place a stable copestone of the desired height at the end of the section you wish to cope.

Attach the crosspiece at the height and width of the wall just below where the copestones will be placed, making sure that the crosspiece is level.

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Nor is it, altogether, the remembrance of her cathedral-toppling earthquakes; nor the stampedoes of her frantic seas; nor the tearlessness of arid skies that never rain; nor the sight of her wide field of leaning spires, wrenched copestones, and crosses all adroop (like canted yards of anchored fleets); and her suburban avenues of house-walls lying over upon each other, as a tossed pack of cards;--it is not these things alone which make tearless Lima, the strangest, saddest city thou can'st see.

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