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be broken. When therefore a perfon intended 

 to build a houfe, he enquired where the beft ftone 

 could be met with. It is to be found on corn- 

 fields and meadows, at a depth which varies from 

 two to fix feet. The pieces were different as to 

 fize. Some were eight or ten feet long, two 

 broad, and one thick. Sometimes they were ftill 

 bigger, but frequently much lefs. Hereabouts 

 they lay in ftrata one above another, the thick- 

 nefs of each ftratum being about a foot. The 

 length and breadth were different, but commonly 

 fuch as I have before mentioned. They muft 

 commonly dig three or four feet before they 

 reach the firft ftratum. The loofe ground above 

 that ftratum, is full of little pieces of this ftone. 

 This ground is the common brick-coloured foil, 

 which is univerfal here, and confifts of fand and 

 clay, though the former is more plentiful. The 

 loofe pieces of glimmer which fhine fo much in 

 it, feem to have been broken off from the great 

 ftrata of ftone. 



IT muft be obferved, that when the people 

 build with this ftone, they take care to turn the flat 

 fide of it outwards. But as that cannot always be 

 done, the ftone being frequently rough on all fides, 

 it is eafily cut fmooth with tools, iince it is foft, 

 and not very difficult to be broken, The ftones 

 "however are unequal in thicknefs, and therefore 

 by putting them together they cannot be kept 

 in fuch ftraight lines as bricks. It fometimes 

 like wife happens that pieces break off when they 

 are cut, and leave holes on the outfide of the 

 wall. But in order to fill up thefs holes, the 

 little pieces of ftone which cannot be made ufe 



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