The Gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement . almost as cast-iron; and they must be more durable than any otherdescription of earthen manufacture, since they are to a great extent vitri-fied, and yec not only hard but tough. Our error in making the sketchesfor these tallies consisted in not giving them a beveled end; but this couldbe remedied in future. Mr. Allardyce has sent us a brick earth tally ofhis own invention {fig- 11.), which, having a beveled face, appears to us to. be a near approach to perfection in that particular; but we think it oughtto be longer, perha
The Gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement . almost as cast-iron; and they must be more durable than any otherdescription of earthen manufacture, since they are to a great extent vitri-fied, and yec not only hard but tough. Our error in making the sketchesfor these tallies consisted in not giving them a beveled end; but this couldbe remedied in future. Mr. Allardyce has sent us a brick earth tally ofhis own invention {fig- 11.), which, having a beveled face, appears to us to. be a near approach to perfection in that particular; but we think it oughtto be longer, perhaps 12 or 13 in. long, to keep the glass which covers thename from being dirtied by the splashing up of the earth during heavyrains. This tally, though not made of so durable a material as that ofMr. Peake, is yet far harder than the hardest clinker bricks, and, notVol. 36. d 3* (icncral Woliccs. bciiii^ hrittU, must livst a very great length of lime. Were it not for thei^reater (|iiantity of da} rc<iiiire(l, we slioulil prefer tlie tallies broader atiiottoni tlum at top; beeaiise tiiey wonltl then be more eertain of , and would sink more slowly into the earth. It was thought thata deviation from the shape of the common brick would procure an exem|)-tion from the excise iluty ; hut Mr. Allardyce found this not to be the tally a foot high, formed in the upper part like that of Mr. Allardyce,with nearly straight sides, but spreading out a little at the base,
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