American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ; Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 3Mitchell, Ames and White, 1819 - Natural history |
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... stones of these different sorts of fruit , & c . sown in autumn or spring in beds , in the nur- sery , an inch or two deep , which , when a year or two old , should be transplanted into nursery rows , two feet asunder , and fifteen or ...
... stones of these different sorts of fruit , & c . sown in autumn or spring in beds , in the nur- sery , an inch or two deep , which , when a year or two old , should be transplanted into nursery rows , two feet asunder , and fifteen or ...
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... stone walls is one foot thicker than the superstructure . damp foundations , the superstructure should always be separated from the sub- structure by lead , tarred paper , or other means . In Stone Arch . Stone arch is a number of stones ...
... stone walls is one foot thicker than the superstructure . damp foundations , the superstructure should always be separated from the sub- structure by lead , tarred paper , or other means . In Stone Arch . Stone arch is a number of stones ...
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... Stone walls are those Stone Walls . built of stone , with or without cement in the joints ; the bedding joints have most commonly a horizontal position in the face of the work ; and this ought always to be the case , when the top of a ...
... Stone walls are those Stone Walls . built of stone , with or without cement in the joints ; the bedding joints have most commonly a horizontal position in the face of the work ; and this ought always to be the case , when the top of a ...
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... stone next to the aperture in the former case , and every al- ternate stone next to the jambs in the lat- ter case , should bond through the wall ; and also every other stone should be plac- ed lengthwise , in each return of an angle ...
... stone next to the aperture in the former case , and every al- ternate stone next to the jambs in the lat- ter case , should bond through the wall ; and also every other stone should be plac- ed lengthwise , in each return of an angle ...
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... stones ; by these means , the diameters of each end of eve- ry stone in the altitude will be deter- mined . The upper and lower bodies of each stone are first to be wrought exact- ly to parallel planes ; and as one great beauty of ...
... stones ; by these means , the diameters of each end of eve- ry stone in the altitude will be deter- mined . The upper and lower bodies of each stone are first to be wrought exact- ly to parallel planes ; and as one great beauty of ...
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