CHEAP AND DURABLE STUCCO. \Qg 



and an assistant, out and home, he would go to any part 



of the kingdom, on being paid Sd. per yard for the worki 



It has been the general received opinion here, that plaster Sea sand not 



made with sea sand, unless well washed in fresh water, I . ,ab,e to 8 et 



damp-, 

 would always be damp; but, on the contrary, I find from 



what has been done in my dining-parlour and passage, it 

 has been always quite dry, although the whole of the sand 

 with which it has been done has been thrown up by the 

 sea, and must have been always at spring" tides covered 

 with sea water : indeed it sometimes happens, that, for 

 months together, there is none to be collected on our shores 

 at this place, that Everett thinks fine enough for the 

 purpose ; and as I am now and then applied to for getting 

 it, 1 have lately, when my horses were at leisure, got a small 

 quantity collected and hauled in for my own use, or, in 

 case of its being wanted, I charge 2c?. per cwt. for it, where 

 it is deposited. As 1 design at some future time to make 

 some alteration in the passage done with the stucco in April 

 1806, I had four pieces taken off, which I tied up sepa- 

 rately', each in a piece of brown paper, and had them 

 packed in a box, with a layer of sand between each piece* 

 and at the bottom and top of the box, and directed it for 

 you, and sent it with some goods I shipped on Saturday 

 last to my friend Netlam Giles, Esq. No. 2, New Inn, 

 St. Clement's. I have requested of him, that he will have 

 the goodnes on its arrival to forward it to you. The vessel 

 it goes by is the sloop Mary Ann, John Anuing, master, 

 bound to Dounes Wharf, Hermitage, Wapping. It is 

 possible, that the pieces of stucco sent may imbibe some of 

 the saline particles of the sand it was packed up in; but 

 this did not occur to me at the time or they should have 

 been packed in saw-dust; as they were perfectly dry Hardness of 

 when packed, so much so as, when struck upon with the the stucco. 

 knuckle, to give a sound similar to what an earthen vessel 

 would do if dry and not cracked. Should there be any 

 further information requisite, on your letting me know, it 

 shall immediately be sent you. It had almost escaped me stone limeai- 

 to say, that the small quantity of six yards, done last pears toanswar 

 October with stone lime for trial, was done from yo^ir * e P ur P ose ' 

 Voj,. XXXII.— June 1812, K. intimating 



