Potomac landings . k and, speaking of tile-making, one of the old chron-iclers said that in that trade the brickmakers havenot the art to do it, it shrinketh. Slate was availablein native deposits, but too far inland on the dry fron-tiers to make practicable the carriage to the river. Itis recorded in rare instances that houses were coveredontop with lead. One such house. Shooters Hill onthe Rappahannock, is reported not only to have had alead roof on top of the house but a fish pond on it,where a mess of fish might be caught at any time. Just in proportion to the fineness of his house was the
Potomac landings . k and, speaking of tile-making, one of the old chron-iclers said that in that trade the brickmakers havenot the art to do it, it shrinketh. Slate was availablein native deposits, but too far inland on the dry fron-tiers to make practicable the carriage to the river. Itis recorded in rare instances that houses were coveredontop with lead. One such house. Shooters Hill onthe Rappahannock, is reported not only to have had alead roof on top of the house but a fish pond on it,where a mess of fish might be caught at any time. Just in proportion to the fineness of his house was theplanter punctilious about the setting which he gave all houses were double fronted. The front fac-ing away from the river was the public or approachfront. There was no back to the house. The other,overlooking the water, was private, and here the planterbuilt his portico whenever his mansion had one, and themore pretentious was the house if it had one on eachfront. The view of each fagade was unobscured by. — ?-r o 1 ,J o y. -^ 0- •\ S OJ V <^ « ?1 o *< .J - Q ^ -^.?t; 2i 53 ^ 2£
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