jflg CHEAP AND DUUABLE STUCCO. 



Its durability. June 13, 1806. — Examined the work, which was perfect- 

 ly sound and free from cracks, nothing having ever peeled 

 off from it. The situation exposed to the weather in the 

 greatest degree. 



N. B. — The coal half-bushel above mentioned holds ex- 

 actly thirteen gallons wine-measure. 



H. B. WAY. 



Sir, 



_, • JL vv^s favoured with yours of the 18th instant, and I now 



Farther ac- J . 



count of the enclose the mason's certificate of the quantity of stucco done 



stucco. w j t j 1 ^e composition I gave him the particulars of; in ad- 



dition to which it may be necessary to mention, that the Coal 

 half-bushel, with which the ingredients of the composition 

 were measuied, (according to the account formerly given), 

 contains exactly thirteen gallons of water, wine measure, 

 and would hold exactly 1 cwt. 1 qr. 7 lb. net of the sand 

 used. The weight of the lime I do not know; and my 

 being able to ascertain exactly the weight of the sand arose 

 from my waggon being employed to carry what was used at 

 Yeovil, and East Coker, from hence; and for what I sent 

 to Yeovil I was paid Is. Qd. per cwt. From the sand here 

 succeeding so well, Thomas Everett would not be prevailed 

 on to engage to do any of that sort of work with hill or 



Charge for it, r ' ver sana< > to be got on this shore. The work he did for 

 me was all by the day ; what he did at Yeovil and East 

 Coker he agreed for at eight pence per yard, of nine feet 

 superficial measure for labour only for the two coats, at 

 four pence per square yard for one coat, all the materials 

 being brought to the spot at his employer's expense, and 

 who also found scaffolding and scaffold ropes. This, I 

 think v is considerably higher than by my calculation of the 

 expense of what I had first done he ought to have charged ; 

 but its being done at a distance of twenty miles from where 

 he lives, and in the most busy time of the year for masons 

 work, 1 suppose must account for it in the first instance; 

 and having once made that price, he would not now 

 work under: but, I believe, for a considerable building, 

 and with sufficient notice, and being allowed 6d. per mile 

 in lieu of wages and travelling expenses for himself 



and 



