TERRA-COTTA ROOFING-TILES. 



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across the rafters for the purpose. Fig. 77 shows the ap- 

 pearance of one of these cottage roofs and the manner in 

 which even the small roofs of dormer windows and hips 

 may be neatly covered by this rough material. 



Fig. 78 'shows the appearance of a portion of the roof 

 from within. The stone tile (tig. 79) used for this pur- 

 pose measures, roughly, .22 centimetres in length by .14 

 centimetres in breadth, with a general thickness of .02 

 centimetres. It is made of some fossiliferous limestone. 

 I learned that these houses were over three hundred years 



FIG. 77. 



old. I also observed on one of the oldest houses in Oxford 

 similar rough-stone tiles, and doubtless, they occur in 

 many other places. 



Mr. Ross Turner informs me that in Bermuda a rough, 

 flat tile is cut from the coral sandstone rock, and cedar 

 pins are used to hold the tiles to the roof after the man- 

 ner of the rough, stone tile just described. An old house 

 at St. Georges, over two-hundred years old, and St. 

 Peter's Church, St. Georges (1630-40) were covered with 

 this tile and they are in use to-day. 



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