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Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Brick, Tiles and Terra-Cotta Brick made of suitable clay or shale and thoroughly burned are also rapidly coming into use as the material with which to pave our public roadways, a substance which is cheap and easily repaired and which possesses almost unlimited endurance under even the heaviest traffic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.