. Bulletin of the Essex Institute. Essex Institute; Natural history; genealogy. TERRA-COTTA ROOFING-TILES. 57 across the rafters for the purpose. Fig. 77 shows the ap- pearance of one of these cottage roofs and the manner in which even the small roofs of dormer windows and hips may be neatly covered by this rough material. Fig. 78 shows the appearance of a portion of the roof from within. The stone tile (tig. 79) used for this pur- pose measures, roughly, .22 centimetres in length by .14 centimetres in breadth, with a general thickness of .02 centimetres. It is made of some fossiliferous limes
. Bulletin of the Essex Institute. Essex Institute; Natural history; genealogy. TERRA-COTTA ROOFING-TILES. 57 across the rafters for the purpose. Fig. 77 shows the ap- pearance of one of these cottage roofs and the manner in which even the small roofs of dormer windows and hips may be neatly covered by this rough material. Fig. 78 shows the appearance of a portion of the roof from within. The stone tile (tig. 79) used for this pur- pose measures, roughly, .22 centimetres in length by .14 centimetres in breadth, with a general thickness of .02 centimetres. It is made of some fossiliferous limestone. I learned that these houses were over three hundred years. Fig. 77. old. I also observed on one of the oldest houses in Oxford similar rough-stone tiles, and doubtless, they occur in many other places. Mr. Ross Turner informs me that in Bermuda a rough, flat tile is cut from the coral sandstone rock, and cedar pins are used to hold the tiles to the roof after the man- ner of the rough, stone tile just described. An old house at St. Georges, over two-hundred years old, and St. Peter's Church, St. Georges (1630-40) were covered with this tile and they are in use to-day. ESSEX INST. BULLETIN, VOL. XXIV £. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Essex Institute. 1n. Salem, Mass. , Essex Institute
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