San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc · leaf 537
aps the best general survey of it can begiven in Mr. Byers own words: First, he says, let me explain that adobe in Spanish means mudor dirt, and that only. A Mexican does not call any specific soil by thetei-m adobe, as we do. This or that dirt is good or less good to makeadobes. They can make… … CARRYING AND SETTING ADOBES. HOUSE l)K MK.John Byers, Designer and Builder The vocabulary of the work is varied and picturesque. An adobeis a house, or the mud brick of which it is made. An adobero is the frameor mould into which the mud is put, and the word is also used to desig-nate the man who…
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