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The stone of Compton House is in renovation rumah a very good condition, although the mason told me such was the hurry in rebuilding that they could renovation rumah not stop to select the stone, and also that it is placed in all sorts of positions with respect to its quarry bed. Perhaps the circumstances that the stone is not in parallel laminж may have something to do with its durability, notwithstanding this latter fact. It would take a long Paper, and several evenings, to exhaust the subject even of our local stones. I may mention, however, that the quarries of Grinshill, between Shrewsbury and Hawkstone, yield a beautiful white sandstone, of a finer grain than Storeton, but of a similar quality. Most of the public buildings of Shrewsbury are built of it, and I am informed that it was to some extent used in the Exchange buildings. The rocky substratum of a district can be well seen in its ancient buildings, for in old times carriage was so important an item that the old builders could not go far for renovation rumah their stone; hence we see that the old churches of part of Lancashire and most of Cheshire, and a large portion of Shropshire, are of red sandstone. Some of it has stood very well, while some has decayed into shapeless masses. There is a tendency to exfoliate parallel to the exposed or worked surface, in all stones, irrespective of the way of the bed, but more so where the stone is set up on edge, renovation rumah or at right angles, to renovation rumah its quarry bed. It is interesting and peculiar to see in some of the old buildings erected with pebbly sandstone how the white quartz pebbles stand out from the surface like renovation rumah warts. This is due to the greater indestructibility of the quartz pebbles, and renovation rumah the weathering away, or denudation, of the sandstone face. Before leaving the subject of local sandstones it will be necessary to refer to one quality they have which is of excellent utility as regards the storage of water, but which is decidedly a disadvantage in building stone--that is, their renovation rumah porosity. I have proved by actual experiment that a cubic foot of Runcorn Stone will take up three quarts of water by capillarity, and that it is possible to make a syphon of solid sandstone which renovation rumah will empty a vessel of water into another vessel renovation rumah by capillarity alone.[2] This shows the absolute necessity of damp-proof courses, not only in the main renovation rumah walls of buildings of stone, but even in fence walls, for the continual sucking up of moisture from the earth, and its evaporation renovation rumah at the surface of renovation rumah the stone, make it rapidly decay.

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