The house, a manual of rural architecture, or, How to build country houses and out-buildings : embracing the origin and meaning of the house ; the art of house-building, including planning, style and construction ; desings and descriptions of cottages farm-houses, villas and out-buildings, of various cost and in the different styles of architecture, etc., etc. ; and an appendix containing recipes for paints and washes, stucco, rough-cast, etc. ; and instructions for roofing, building with rough stone, unburnt brick, balloon frames, and the concrete or gravel wall ; with numerous original plans (1866)
Jacques, D. H. (Daniel Harrison), 1825-1877 · New York : The American News Company, 39 and 41 Chambers Street · leaf 175
dwhich may be easily had by providing capacious cisterns, renders it import-ant that the cheapest, best, and most convenient mode of construction shouldbe adopted. The two all-essential requisites for underground cisterns are.good hydraulic lime and a supply of clear, pure sand. These must be… … When this hardening process does not take place, it must be attribnted to bad materials, or to intermixing in wrong proportions. On the latter point, Bomc are misled by adopting the practice emplovcd in mixing common lime _,. j„. mortar, the hardest ma- Fig. 124. terial resulting m this case ■where…
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