13S FARM BUILDINGS. 6. 



rpon a farm, perhaps, at a dillance froiri 

 workmen, is of no fmali value. 



2. Copings. RiJ}[e Ti'es, beins; laid en- 

 tirely on niorrar, and being expofed in 

 the fuiieft manner to the adion of the 

 winds, are very liable to be thrown off; 

 us well as to be broken by the weather : it is 

 no uncommon thing, in places where ridgs 

 liles are ufcd, to fee half of them difplaced 

 or b-roken ; the heads of the fpars having 

 nothing but the mortar to hide them, with- 

 out any thing to defend them from the wea- 

 ther. The ill confequence is evident. 



In this country where frccilone, which will 

 fland the weather, abounds, ridge stones 

 are in common ufe. 



The form triangular; namely, half a fquare 

 divided diagonally. The longelt fide is hol- 

 lowed to receive the top of the tiles : the 

 oppofite angle forms the ridge. The angles 

 at the bafe are generally drcffcd off. to pre- 

 vent the wind from laying hold of them ; 

 and to give them a more fnug and neat ap- 

 pearance. They are fet on with mortar, in 

 the f:'.mc manner as ridge tiles are laid. 



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