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TxsECT architecturp:. 



a orain adapted to its purpose, which it fitted into the wall 

 and secured with silk. It first enlarged the outside of the 

 wall by the larger and coarser grains, and then selected 

 finer for the interior. But before it closed the aperture, it 

 collected a quantity of earth on the inside, wove a pretty 





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Earth-mason Caterpillar's Xests, with the perfect .Aloth, &c 



thick network tapestry of silk over the part which remained 

 open, and into the meshes of this, by pushing and pressing, 

 it thrust grains of earth, securing them with silk till the 



