The Architectural magazine . be found, one or two mengo into the water, and, with arude instrument, like a carpen-ters adze, they cut about two ormore feet deep, and six or eightfeet long: the breadth is accord-ing to circumstances. After theyhave cut about a load of soil,they mix with it one sackful ofbroken straw, cut about a quar-ter of an inch long (the quantity of this material must be proportioned to thequality of the soil), and a certain quantity of ashes. After these materialsjgg are well mixed together, they are ready for moulding. One man tiikes a borrshane {fig. 198.), and goes to t
The Architectural magazine . be found, one or two mengo into the water, and, with arude instrument, like a carpen-ters adze, they cut about two ormore feet deep, and six or eightfeet long: the breadth is accord-ing to circumstances. After theyhave cut about a load of soil,they mix with it one sackful ofbroken straw, cut about a quar-ter of an inch long (the quantity of this material must be proportioned to thequality of the soil), and a certain quantity of ashes. After these materialsjgg are well mixed together, they are ready for moulding. One man tiikes a borrshane {fig. 198.), and goes to the other whois in the pit, who fills it up with the mixture; and then thefirst carries it to a barren place, or common. When a suffi-cient quantity has been carried to this place, the labourersspread the cut straw over the ground where the bricks are tobe made. The brickmakers then get each of them a vessel(see fig. 199.) full of water, and then sit each to his fill the moulds {fig. 200.) with their hands, and when.
Size: 1765px × 1416px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecad, booksubjectarchitecture, bookyear1834
