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frame firmly in its place. For rectangular buildings, without towers at the corners, angle bricks are specially made.
The inventor claims that the circular brick are especially valuable for towers, tall chimnneys, light-houses, reservoirs for grain and for water conduits, cisterns, tubs for distillers, dyers, etc. Some of these claims seem fanciful and not duly sustained by experience, being apparently suggestions. For example, a tall cistern is represented, built to hold five metres in depth of water, and warranted to resist the pressure. The walls are double and connected at intervals with tie-bricks, leaving an air-space between. The bottom is to be of sheet iron " three to five millimetres ” in thickness, with the edges turned up so as to hold the lower course of bricks and to prevent the iron from drawing iii by sagging.
It is proposed to make roofs and arches of these brick, each brick with six dovetail joints, and 0 m, 320 by 0 m, 190 by 0 m .060. These, it is stated, Can be laid for seven francs the square metre, including the cement and fifteen bricks at twenty centimes each. The average price is about seventy-five francs the thousand for bricks, twenty- five centimetres by twelve centimetres by six centimetres. The mean price per square metre of wall built of a single thickness of brick 0 m .14 thick, is stated to be nine francs seventy-five centimes ; and of a square metre of double wall with bricks 0 m .075 broad, fourteen francs.
There was no opportunity of verifying any of these statements, and no references were made to any constructions made in this manner.
Terra-Cotta from India.
The Madras School of Art sent forty-two terra-cotta casts °f Hindoo temple ornamentation, consisting of ornamental pillars, scrolls, running and border ornaments, perforated panels, circular and star patterns, all of great interest to ar t, and, at the same time, good examples of the ease of reproducing architectural designs and details in terra-cotta.
Chicago Terra-Cotta Company, Chicago. This establishment has, for the past eight years, been engaged in the
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