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ON THE ART AND METHOD OF BRICK. 
MAKING. 
THE manufacture of bricks was never carried on so 
extensively as at present, through the rage, not only for 
building but for improvement in the metropolis, and 
throughout the suburbs and every town in the united 
kingdom. Amongst most articles of British manufac- 
ture wc see a gradual improvement upon the methods 
and systems of former times, and the principles of builds 
ing under the architects of tlie present day are brought 
to a state of perfection not to be rivalled by future agcs^ 
but, strange as it may appear, the texture and durability 
of the most essential requisite for building, bricks, instead 
of bemg in a state of improvement, according to the sci- 
ence of building, are in a retrograde state, and far inferior 
to those of ancient times. 
Brick-making, of late years^ has furnished a very con. 
siderable branch of trade around the metropolis, not only 
very productive to the land- owners, but it has produced 
an extensive help to the revenue of the country ; yet much 
of the brick now in use will hardly wear out a twenty- one 
years lease. That there must be something radically 
wrong in the present system of manufacturing the brick 
e^th is very evident, as we have the same means of pro- 
curing brick earth equally fit for the purpose as formerly. 
With this impression, at the instigation of one of our cor'* 
respondents connected with building, we think it may be 
beneficial to those concerned to lay before them the theory 
and practice of brick-making, as drawn up some time 
since by Mr. James Malcom. 
He observes, that the manufacture of them is of the 
utmost importance to the community, inasmuch as the 
value and comfort of our dwellings must depend in a 
great measure on the quality of the materials with which 
