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INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I: THE ORIGIN OF THE DWELLING HOUSE
CHAPTER II: ON THE PRIMORDIAL SUBSTANCE ACCORDING TO THE PHYSICISTS
CHAPTER III: BRICK
CHAPTER IV: SAND
CHAPTER V: LIME
CHAPTER VI: POZZOLANA
CHAPTER VII: STONE
CHAPTER VIII: METHODS OF BUILDING WALLS
CHAPTER IX: TIMBER
CHAPTER X: HIGHLAND AND LOWLAND FIR
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2. Both kinds should be constructed of the smallest stones, so that the walls, being thoroughly puddled with the mortar, which is made of lime and sand, may hold together longer. Since the stones used are soft and porous, they are apt to suck the moisture out of the mortar and so to dry it up. But when there is abundance of lime and sand, the wall, containing more moisture, will not soon lose its strength, for they will hold it together. But as soon as the moisture is sucked out of the mortar by the porous rubble, and the lime and sand separate and disunite, the rubble can no longer adhere to them and the wall will in time become a ruin.
Vitruvius: The Ten Books on Architecture. Vitruvius. Morris Hicky Morgan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. London: Humphrey Milford. Oxford University Press. 1914.
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