How we are sheltered; a geographical reader (1906)
Chamberlain, James Franklin, 1869-1943 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co.,ltd. · leaf 142
n this ac-count it is not shipped as extensively as is lumber.Whenever possible, it is shipped by water, as itcosts less to ship material by boat than by train.There are many kinds of rock, but only a few are 124 HOUSES BUILT OF STONE 125 used in building. The most important aregranite, sandstone,… … Fig. 50. —Windsor Castle. stone is found at the surface of the earth, andsometimes it is far below the surface. Stonequarries are not as deep as some coal mines,however. There are more than five thousandstone quarries in our country, and they furnishwork to about seventy thousand men. 126 HOW WE…
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