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| - Sun-dried bricks, introduced into Spain by its African conquerors, and found at the present time, under the same name, in Mexico and other parts of the New World. The ancient temples of Peru were built of bricks sun-dried and hardened by pressure. Pietro della Valle compares the sun-dried bricks of Babylon with the Spanish tappia, or mud walls, which were known in the time of Pliny, who thus mentions their general adoption. In warm, dry climates, these bricks, made by simple compression, are very durable. The Egyptian brick was sundried. Straw, or some fibrous substance, was generally worked up with the clay to assist the cohesion, as we learn from the complaint of the Israelites in the fifth chapter of Exodus ; and
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| - Sun-dried bricks, introduced into Spain by its African conquerors, and found at the present time, under the same name, in Mexico and other parts of the New World. The ancient temples of Peru were built of bricks sun-dried and hardened by pressure. Pietro della Valle compares the sun-dried bricks of Babylon with the Spanish tappia, or mud walls, which were known in the time of Pliny, who thus mentions their general adoption. In warm, dry climates, these bricks, made by simple compression, are very durable. The Egyptian brick was sundried. Straw, or some fibrous substance, was generally worked up with the clay to assist the cohesion, as we learn from the complaint of the Israelites in the fifth chapter of Exodus ; and the modern Egyptians almost always introduce straw in their bricks to tliis day. Pocock describes a pyramid on the plains near the Nile, which is built of sun-dried bricks. He found some of these bricks 13i inches long, 64 broad, and 4| thick, chopped straw having been mixed up with the clay. In the catacombs, the Theban brickmaker's occupation is represented. A painting upon the wall exhibits slaves, in one part employed in procuring water, inmixing, tempering, and carrying the clay, or in turning the bricks out of the mould, and arranging them in order on the ground to be dried by the sun ; whilst, in another part (Fig. 66), one man is carrying the dried bricks, by means of the yoke, to the spot where they are to be used in building; and another is returning, after carrying the bricks.
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