Fred T. Hodgson · Frederick J. Drake and Co. · leaf 25
the old plasterers, whose trade descended fromfather to son for many successive generations, to care-fully preserve any fine white lime produced by burningfragments of pure statuary, and to each fill a barrel forhis successors. This they turned over from time to 24 CEMENTS AND CONCRETES time, and… … Portion of a Ceiling from Teheran, Persia. tice in many an old town, and thus the value of oldair-slaked lime, such as had been written about eighteenhundred years before, was preserved as a secret of thetrade in Italy, whilst the rest of Europe was advocating INTRODUCTORY 25 the exclusive use of…
