Mechanical exercises, or, The elements and practice of carpentry, joinery, bricklaying, masonry, slating, plastering, painting, smithing, and turning . ent kind of materials may be employed forthe purpose: it is evident that every distinctspecies of material will require its own peculiarmanner of treatment, and the sizes of the partswhich are to compose the thing required, mustdepend upon what the material will most con-veniently admit of: thus brick, wood, stone, oriron may be employed to construct a body forany proposed end, the manner of working these ^4H BRICKLAYING. these will not only di
Mechanical exercises, or, The elements and practice of carpentry, joinery, bricklaying, masonry, slating, plastering, painting, smithing, and turning . ent kind of materials may be employed forthe purpose: it is evident that every distinctspecies of material will require its own peculiarmanner of treatment, and the sizes of the partswhich are to compose the thing required, mustdepend upon what the material will most con-veniently admit of: thus brick, wood, stone, oriron may be employed to construct a body forany proposed end, the manner of working these ^4H BRICKLAYING. these will not only differ, but the sizes of thethings which are to compose the whole, and notonly so, but sometimes a change in the generalform also. In brick cornices, from the various kinds ofbricks and tiles, a variety, of pleasing symmetrymay be formed by various dispositions of thebricks, and frequently without cutting, or if cut,champhering only may be used. Fig. 5 a Cornice in imitation of the GrecianDoric. Fig. 6 a Dentil Cornice, in this last the uppermember is champhered to give it the appearanceof a mouldins:. PLATE VI. ^:::^ r/^Atau^/na,, :fz^.i. Ti^.
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