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Instructions for building very strong and durable Walls and 

 Houses of any dimensions of common wiprepartd Earth, 

 rammed into Moulds^ by the method called Pise, which has 

 been practised frotu the earlies times in the vicinity of Lyons, 

 and elsewhere.* 



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N the year 1791, a work was published at Paris, by M. Strong and 4h- 

 Francois Cointeraux, containing an account of a method of j^uin-ofgartlj 

 building strong and durable houses with no other materials than only- 

 earth, which has been practised for ages in the province of 

 Lyons. It appeared to be attended with so many advantages, 

 that several gentlemen of England, who employ their leisure in 

 the study of rural economy, were induced to make trial of its 

 efficacy ; and the event of their experiments has rendered them 

 anxious to extend, by all possible means, the knowledge and 

 practice of so beneficial an art. With a view to promote this 

 desirable end, the account contained in the following pages haa 

 been extracted from the French work ; and it will be found to 

 contain every necessary information by those into whose hands 

 the original may not have fallen, or who, being unacquainted 

 with the language, may have been prevented from consultmg 

 it. The appearance of those wretched hovels which are built The method : 

 with mud, in most parts of Ireland, will perhaps dispose many fprent fro^ 

 persons to doubt the strength and durability of houses whose that of making 

 walls are composed of no other materials than earth. The"*" ^^ s, 

 French author says,'* The possibility of raising the walls of 

 ♦' houses two or even three stories high, with earth only, which — and incom- 

 *' will sustain floors loaded with the heaviest weights, and of P^^'^^^y^*-^''"^" 

 *' building the largest factories in this manner, may astonish 



* Extracted (by permission) from " Barber's Farm Buildings, 

 containing designs for Cottages, Farm-houses, Lodges, Farm yards, 

 &c. with appropriate scenery to each." London, printed for W, 

 Harding, 36, St, James's Street, 



It may be an acceptable piece of information for agriculturists 

 to know, that Mr. Harding has taken considerable pains to render 

 his shop a repository of all the works of the first character relating 

 to the various branches of agriculture. 



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