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| <p>to <sic>Compleat</sic> a Building this would reduce<lb/> the Expence so as not to render it an object <lb/>or they might if brick Earth was at hand<lb/> make their own bricks, or if the building was<lb/> not more than <del>thirty</del> twenty five or thirty <lb/>feet high <add>they</add> might build it of <unclear>sunburnt</unclear> <add><sic>press'd</sic></add> Earth<lb/> where nothing but Labour would be required &<lb/> which if the Place was surrounded by a <lb/>high wall would be sufficiently Strong to<lb/> confine them — all those fills <del>should</del> might<lb/> be <gap/> with Earth & would have the <del><gap/></del> necessary Security of Safety from <lb/>Fire — Indeed All Public Offices All Store <lb/>Houses all Barracks All Prisons ought to<lb/> be constructed with Arches to render them <lb/>Incombustible .. & Modern Improvements<lb/> have recently Invented two or three Different Modes<lb/> with flat arches the upper side of which forms the floor of one <unclear>room</unclear> & this<lb/> serves the Ceiling of that below — <lb/> of Arching a Building <add>&yet</add> so that the pressure <lb/>shall not be <unclear>Latereally</unclear> but perpendicularly<lb/> upon the Walls — one of which is not so Expensive <lb/>as the Common mode of building the other rather <lb/>more so. </p> | | <head>30 Dec<hi rend='superscript'>r</hi> 1802 2<lb/> Letter 3 <lb/> (1</head> |
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30 Decr 1802 2
Letter 3
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After this what man
