The house: a manual of rural architecture: or, How to build country houses and out-buildings .. (1866)
Jacques, D. H. (Daniel Harrison), 1825-1877 · New York, G.E. & F.W. Woodward · leaf 173
y 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 selectedfrom… … When this hardening process does not lake place, il must be jutributed tobad materials, or to intermixing in wrong proportions. On the latter point,gome are misled by adopting the practice employed in mixing common, lime mortar, the hardest ma-terial resulting in this casewhere the sand constitutes…
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