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receive any information of this kind to be tabulated for future 

 comparison, the value of such notes being greatly enhanced 

 if accompanied by sketches, no matter how rudely drawn, if 

 accurate. 



Appendix. 



List of points to he noted in the examination of buildings 

 ivhich appear to illustrate the type of the original pre- 

 historic house. 



Material of construction. — Whether stone, clay, wood, 

 turf, snow, &c, 



Situations. — Standing in the oj^en on the ground level, 

 underground — as the Treasury of Atreus, above ground but 

 buried under a mound, like the Picts' houses. 



Approach. — Entered direct or with a tunnel of approach. 

 (N.B. This last appears to be specially a Northern feature.) 



Plan. — Rectangular, circular, or elHptical. 



Walls. — Upi'ight or battering inwards ; openings for light. 



Doorways. — Hectangular or trapezoidal ; of full size or of 

 purposely contracted dimensions. 



Roofs. — Domed or ridged ; roof opening over doorway, 

 single or double ; nature of covering ; if of thatch, how 

 weighted. 



Notes to be accompanied, if possible, with sketches and 

 dimensions. 



Address.— Mr. Edward Dobson, M. Inst. C.E., South 

 British Chambers, Hereford-street, Christchurch, New 

 Zealand. 



7.— THE TRUTHFUL TREATMENT OF BRICK- 

 WORK. 



By ALEX. NORTH. 



General Distribution of Brickmaking Materials. 



Of all building materials none are more generally and 

 plentifully distributed over the face of the whole earth than 

 the argillaceous formations and deposits from which bricks 

 can be made. These formations occur in every considerable 

 country — almost in every district — and are confined to no 

 particular geological period, although they occur more abun- 

 dantly in the later deposits. 



