A Practical Treatise on the Preparation, Combination and Application

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Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on the Preparation, Combination and Application: Of Calcareous and Hydraulic Limes and Cements, Compiled and Arranged From the Best Authorities, and From the Practical Experience of the Compiler During a Long Professional Career, to Which Is Added Many Useful Recipes for Various Scientific Mercantile An The following pages (which make but little pretensions to originality) are presented to the notice of the Building Profession, as a concise and useful work upon the important subject of Limes and Cements, and with a view to attract public attention to their essential properties, analysis, combination and application, as described in a rare, but highly esteemed and valued work (long since out of print) by Dr. Brindley Higgins, the theories and experiments therein enunciated and defined having been practically confirmed by the compiler, during a long professional career, and also as embodying the best modem experience and information upon the subject, derived from high authority (which is duly acknowledged) interspersed with practical remarks by the Author, to which is added much that is useful to the engineer, geologist, and American citizen, and now humbly and respectfully submitted to the patronage of an enlightened public. 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.