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APPENDIX. 



Scotch-made foot or 12-inch tiles weigh 12 

 cwt. per 100. English-made ones considerably- 

 less, quoted by Skirving at 8 cwt., because they 

 are much thinner. 



Ornamental tiles or quarries, 6 inches on the 

 side, coloured blue, red, drab, and black, 2s. 2d. 

 to 2s. 6d. per square yard. 



Newcastle-under-Line prices, also a very supe- 

 rior description, 10s. a yard. 



Wrights' quarries, which are on a pale yellow 

 ground, have dark-brown figures in pigment let 

 in, and are very hard and beautiful ; sold in 

 Staffordshire, at 25s. per yard superficial. 



Those made by Minton & Co., Copeland & 

 Co., are still more beautiful, and, although ex- 

 pensive, make the most elegant of all conser- 

 vatory floors. 



Common fire-tile, 12 inches by 12 inches, 5d. 

 each; 12 inches by 15 inches, 7d. each; 12 

 inches by 18 inches, Is. 2d. each; 18 inches by 

 10 inches, Is., &c, cash prices ; if on credit, add 

 Id. each 12 by 12 ; l^d. to 12 by 15 ; 2d. to 18 

 by 12 — Wishaw Tileworks' prices. 



Of common red pan-tiles for roofing, laid on 

 laths 1| inches square, and at 10 or 11 inches 

 apart, 576 are required to cover a rood of roof- 

 ing. The overlaps should not be less than 3 

 inches, and bedded and pointed with best plas- 

 ter-mortar. Scotch price for putting on, finding 

 pegs and mortar, 50s. per rood. 



COST OF TANKS FOR HEATING, 



(Made of various materials, as Wood, Iron, 

 Slate, Lead, Brick, $c) 



Mr Rendle's estimate of the cost of a wooden 

 tank, of the best Memel pine, 2 inches in thick- 

 ness, the whole to be ploughed and tongued, 

 and jointed with best white-lead, with a division- 

 board in the centre, and strengthened at the 

 corners with fillets : cost per foot superficial, 7d. 



Cast-iron tanks, cast in pieces, and bolted 

 together, 2s. 4d. per superficial foot. 



Wooden tank, covered with lead ; the timber 

 to be rough off the saw, and firmly put together ; 

 the inside covering of lead, 5 lb. to the foot, 

 including solder and workmanship : cost Is. 

 3d. per superficial foot ; — that is, for timber- 

 work 3d., and for lead Is. per foot. 



Brick and cement tanks, taking bricks at 5s. 

 6d. per 100, and cement at 14s. per barrel, of 

 36 gallons : cost of tank about Is. per superficial 

 foot. It will be understood that this calculation 

 was made before the duty was taken off bricks, 

 but including cartage, &c. There are many 

 places where bricks will cost little less at pre- 

 sent. 



Slate tanks. — The slates can be furnished, 

 fitted, and ready to be fitted up, (at Plymouth,) 

 at about lOd. per superficial foot. 



Very great confusion exists in regard to 

 measures of length, surface, and solidity, and no 

 Act of Parliament appears to be sufficiently 

 stringent to cause an equalisation of these ; and 

 hence great confusion occurs in buying, selling, 

 and measuring, all sorts of productions and 

 works. The scale of allowances is equally vari- 

 able, and requires a clear understanding between 

 contracting parties, in drawing up specifications, 



as to how the work is to be measured., &c. It 

 would be desirable if all allowances were done 

 away with, and the superficial or cubic contents, 

 as the case may be, only regarded. 



In regard to fruit, lime, grain, &c, we find 

 the following differences in measures of soli- 

 dity, viz., the imperial bushel is an arbitrary mea- 

 sure of 8 gallons, each containing 277.274" cubic 

 inches; while in Monmouthshire, and some parts 

 of South Wales, the bushel contains 10 gallons; 

 at Abingdon and Andover, 9 gallons ; at Stam- 

 ford, 16 gallons; at Dorchester, 10 gallons; at 

 Falmouth 20, and usually 21 gallons ; at Chep- 

 stow, lO^ gallons; at Appleby and Penrith, 16 

 gallons for pease, rye, and wheat, and for 

 barley, malt, and oats, 20 gallons; at Kingston- 

 on-Thames, 8^ gallons ; at Wycomb and Read- 

 ing, 8| gallons ; at Carlisle, 24 gallons. At Ches- 

 ter, a bushel of wheat contains 32 gallons, and 

 of oats 40 gallons. 



In Scotland, where such articles are often 

 computed by the boll, a like discrepancy occurs. 

 At Stranraer, a boll of oats or of lime contains 

 12 bushels; in Berwickshire and East Lothian 

 it contains 6 bushels; in Wigtownshire, the 

 boll of oats contains 12 bushels, and that of 

 potatoes 16 bushels, of half a cwt. each. Po- 

 tatoes are bought and sold in the Isle of Thanet 

 by the sack of 200 lb. each ; in Suffolk, by 3 

 heaped bushels per sack, and in some parts of 

 the same county the bushel contains 5 heaped 

 bushels, and weighs 2\ cwt. At Rayleigh it 

 weighs 252 lb. ; and at Collumpton, 1 60 lb. 



In regard to measures of length, an equal 

 confusion exists, viz. — the pole, perch, or, as 

 it is in some places called, the rope or lug, 

 which is properly 5\ yards, or one-fourth of a 

 chain. In Fifeshire and Berwickshire it is 

 1 8 feet ; in Wigtownshire, it is 20 feet ; and 

 for certain kinds of work, in East Lothian, 

 it is 18^ feet. Over most of Ireland it is 21 

 feet. In many parts of Yorkshire, and in parts 

 of Sussex, it is 21 feet ; and for some kinds of 

 work at Chepstow it is the same, while for other 

 work it is 18 or 20 feet. In some parts of 

 Devonshire it is 20 feet ; and at Swansea, in 

 South Wales, and in south Lancashire, it is 24 

 feet. At Witney and Cardiff it is 18 feet. The 

 imperial acre contains 4840 square yards; the acre 

 of South Wales, 5120 square yards. In Ireland 

 and Lancashire it is 4840 ; and in Cornwall 

 the same as the Scotch, 1 \ imperial acres. The 

 Cheshire acre contains 10,240 square yards. 



DIGGING FOUNDATIONS, 

 {Or other work of a similar nature.) 

 The London prices are, for common foun- 

 dations in ordinary soil, and where they do 

 not exceed six feet in depth, for digging and 

 throwing out, 5d. per cubic yard, when all 

 materials are found by the excavator; 4d. for 

 labour only. In gravelly or clay soils, add Id. 

 per cubic yard. If wheeled, not exceeeding 

 twenty yards distant, add 2d., when barrows, 

 planks, &c, are found, and Id. for labour only. 

 From twenty to forty yards, add 4d. and 2d. re- 

 spectively, and for every twenty yards add 2d. 

 and Id. Carting, per cubic yard, to any distance 

 within half a mile, 2s. 3d. ; and to any greater 



