COMMODIOUS HOUSES WITH EARTHEN WALLS. 67 



be 1^ yard superficial, in the common day's labour of ten 

 hours. 



At this place the expense may be estimated as follows : 



£ a d> 



Labour to making facing composition, fitting in and 



ramming to a 16-inch wall, where the earth is at 



hand (labourer's wages being Is. Wd. per day) 



per yard >,uperficial * *••• 2 2 



Value of lime used in the composition rammed 



into the face of a yard superficial (lime being 8c/. 



per bushel) •••• 3 



Lime and labour to rubbing up and finishing the 



outside face of the wall • • • ♦ • • • • 3 



Total finished and faced on one side 2 8 



If a wall to a garden or otherways, and finished 



and faced on both sides, then add • » « • • • 8 



Total for walls finished on both sides .... 3 4 



At this place the value of a yard of brick-work is more 

 than ten shillings, of walling only 14 inches thick, the 

 bricks being 425. per 1000, and lime 8rf. per bushel ; con- 

 sequently the ceconomy of the pise must appear ; and the 

 same difference will be found in any other place where lime 

 and bricks bear the same price* and proper earth can be 

 found at hand. But as attempting this sort of work, where 

 it is not applicable, or improperly doing it, so as to lead to 

 failure, may prevent its introduction where it would be use- 

 ful, I shall endeavour to point out any precautions that have 

 struck me, and every thing that has appeared to make 

 ftgainst it. 



Many persons have supposed, and it has been asserted, All rtr.h will 

 that almost any earth will do, but such is certainly very er- ,i «* t *» 

 roneous; for proj er earth cannot in all places be found, 

 and it being difficult to describe it, or to be sure when it is 

 found, it seems advisab.e, before the entering en any consi* 

 derable work, that the experimentalist should first do a small 



F 2 piece, 



