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dwellings for the humbler classes — and who are not ? The build- 

 ings alluded to will be found worth examination, and are situated 

 in the lower end of the Avenue Daumesnil. If useful for this 

 purpose, why not equally so for out-offices, garden, and many other 

 adjuncts of the country house?" 



Every part of these houses was run up with the utmost facility 

 upon this system ; and of course the building of garden walls upon 

 it is even much more simple and facile — in fact, nothing can be 

 more so. In the Field of 17th August, 1867, it is stated that " all 

 kinds of building materials have almost doubled in value within the 

 last five years, while the wages of workmen have in some instances 

 gone up as high as 33 per cent." Such is the condition of things 

 that has brought forth a remedy. 



"It is well known that, in all brickwork buildings, the brick- 

 layer's share comes to a very large sum ; and more especially is this 

 the case with respect to stabling, cottages, farm buildings, and wall 

 fencing. Anything, therefore, that will diminish tliis cost, giving 

 equal stability and bearing power, will produce a most material 

 effect in the construction or reconstruction of such buildings as we 

 have mentioned above, particularly in farm buildings, the cheaper 

 class of houses, and labourers' cottages. Taking the present price 

 of bricks at an average of thirty shillings a thousand, and bricklayers 

 at from five shillings to six shillings a day, some idea may be 

 arrived at of the price which a landowner is likely to pay for im- 

 proving the property on an estate. When the plan which we are 

 about to describe has been fully developed, it must produce a great 

 deal of good in humbler dwellings. 



" As a remedy for this state of things, a Mr. Joseph Tall has 

 patented an apparatus for the purpose of building strong substantial 

 walls, without either bricks, building stone, the bricklayer, or the 

 mason ! In fact, it closely resembles concrete, which has for a long 

 time been known in connexion with foundations ; but, on account 

 of the very liquid stale in which concrete must be used, and its not 

 standing wet, wall-building with it has been hitherto out of the 



