The American house carpenter: a treatise upon architecture, cornices and mouldings, framing, doors, windows and stairs. Together with the most important principles of practical geometry (1852)
Hatfield, R. G. (Robert Griffith), 1815-1879 · New York, J. Wiley · leaf 178
1^ Lead, 2 inches ** 4 to 7 Zinc, • 3 li to 2 Short pine shingles, • 5 lito2^ Loner cypress shingles. a Q u 4 to 5 Slate, u (3 u a 5 to 9 The weight of the covering, as above estimated, is that of thematerial only, added to the weight of whatever is used to fix it tothe roof, such as nails,… … 162 AMERICAN HOUSE-CARPENTEK.
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