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Excerpt from A Practical Essay on a Cement and Artificial Stone: Justly Supposed to Be That of the Greeks and Romans, Lately Re-Discovered by Monsieur Loriot, Master of Mechanics to His Most Christian Majesty, for the Cheap, Easy, Expeditious and Durable Construction of All Manner of BuildingsIt is, no doubt, an eafy matter to'raife 151t ing edifices, by piling, 0116 upon another, enor mous blocks of {tone But, then, there are fe veral countri...
