How we are sheltered; a geographical reader (1906)
Chamberlain, James Franklin, 1869-1943 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co.,ltd. · leaf 128
e. Thousands of years ago the people of Egypt,Assyria, Babylonia, and other eastern countries,molded clay into bricks and dried them in the sun-shine. Bits of grass or straw were mixed withthe clay to bind the particles together. Therewas little timber in these countries, but therewas plenty of… … Fig. 46.—An Adobe House. made of sun-dried bricks. Such homes are calledadohe houses. Most of them were built whenlumber was more difficult to obtain than it isto-day, but many of them are still inhabited. Most bricks are now made by machinery. Inorder to understand how the work is done we 112 HOW…
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