Relative Durability of Bricks and of Stone FnoM OuR OWN Connesroxoene soe ein me, City July 28, slowly, the section from the Bast city wall is coming do
to the South Gate has been removed. The materials are for sale to any who pay cash and cart them away promptly. Three kiriis of star form the foundations, gray granite, red sandstone and bluish lime-stone, The Chinese say that even stone
sam years or more, My atten ti il of in this climate—after a theuwas called to blocks of granite that seemed soft and soggy, sandstone that looked like sponge from disin. regration of mineral elements, and limestone once in solid blocks se~ parated into slivers by cleavage and and thoroughly baked, Setain shape s, originally of pure clay
and hardness better' than. stone. The mortar formerly used still binds the brick in places so firmly that hammer and chisel cannot separate them, the mass requiring to be pulverized for removal,
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