Modern dwellings in town and country adapted to American wants and climate with a treatise on furniture and decoration (1878)
Holly, Henry Hudson, 1834-1892 · New York, Harper & brothers, publishers · leaf 68
ls. Thus each slate is secured in its position without thenecessity of punching holes, which invariably impairs its strength. It is usually a custom, after the slating is completed, to cover it wTitha coating of oil. This seems to clean it off, and gives it a dark appear-ance, and the slater will… … ~£1 Design No. 8. on sound slating, therefore, remains on the surface only until it is wash-ed off by the rain, and is then conducted into our cisterns, and we won-der what is the matter with the water! Another folly that we might as well condemn is that of paintingroofs; we mean particularly…
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