Natural history and antiquities of Selborne (1875)
White, Gilbert, 1720-1793, Buckland, Francis T. (Francis Trevelyan), 1826-1880, Selborne, Roundell Palmer, Earl of, 1812-1895, Delamotte, Philip H. (Philip Henry), 1821-1889, James Burn & Company, binder · London : Macmillan and Co. · leaf 59
IV.] OF SHLEORNE: 9 thirty or forty years. When chiselled smooth, it makes elegant fronts for houses, equal in colour and grain to the Bath stone; and superior in one respect, that, when seasoned, it does not scale. Decent chimney-pieces are worked from it of much closer and finer grain than… … GILBERT WHITE'S HOUSE, NOW THE RESIDENCE OF PROFESSOR BELL. stone, cutting in all directions; yet has something of a grain parallel with the horizon, and therefore should not be swrbedded —that is, set edgewise, contrary to its position in the quarry— but laid in the same position that it occupies…
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