Memoirs of the most eminent American mechanics : also, lives of distinguished European mechanics : together with a collection of anecdotes ... relating to the mechanic arts : illustrated by fifty engravings (1852)
Howe, Henry, 1816-1893, New York Museum of Science and Industry. Library · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 376
e footpaths inmost of the towns are paved with bricks set on edge, and beddedin sand, similar to the clinkers,1 or small hard-burned bricks sogenerally used for road-making in Holland. The second specimen was formed with broken stones, but thematerials, owing chiefly, no doubt, to the high rate of… … DESCRIPTIONS, ETC. 367 to its general introduction are the prejudicial effects produced onit by the very intense frost with which the country is visited, andthe expense of keeping it in repair. The third specimen is rather ofan original description. It consistsof a species of tesselated…
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