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                                                                      Roofs.  Flat and steep   Does the habit of slating the easy portability of
                                                                      		long masses of roofing in the form of slate, materially
                                                                      		affect the form of northern roofs, Are slates better on
                                                                      		steep roofs than tiles.  Can tiles be used on very steep
                                                                      		roofs. Observe the real use of the tile is to
                                                                      		concentrate the water into heavier streamlets which may
                                                                      		run faster off the flat roof, a steep roof needs no such
                                                                      		artifice - smooth slates will do for it.
                                                                      		Observe that the disagreeableness of the Chinese Cupola
                                                                      		form [drawing] is not abstract disagreeableness;
                                                                      		but related to the weakness of its construction;  for the 
Jeremiah 9th. at end.  The stars of a crown, with note in             		same form in a mountain is delightful
Pictorial may be useful Jeremiah 22. 14 is curious                    Windows.	Note that their precedence is to be decided not by their
respecting architecture;  and its connection with - or                		succession, but their dates of dying out.  Many are
separation from religion.                                             		contemporary, but some survive the others by centuries.
Edinburgh. Aug 25th.  Heard to-day two very bad sermons               Religion.	Ought to be the chief reason in Government  Grand passage
one from pure Scotch the other high Puseyite - the former             		Bacon Vol 1 p 196
the most offensive the latter the least useful.  Both not             Manufacturers.    I was told by master of ironworks at Coalbrooke dale
knowing how to fill up their time but the Scotchman                   		that the men employed in the severe work got about £2
doing it the most energetically - though by such                      		a week, and that he had known a family in the receipt of
devices as - we commend to thee the Sick, beseeching thee             		£40  a year;  but that they were improvident.
to - cure them - and we

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