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                                                                      Roofs.  Flat and steep   Does the habit of slating the eay portability of
                                                                      	long masses of roofing in the form of slate, materiably
                                                                      effect the form of northern roofs, Are slates better on
                                                                      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                  is not abstract disagreeableness;
                                                                      but related to the weakness of its construction;  for the 
                                                                       same form in a mountain is delightful
	Jeremiah 9th. at end.  The stars of a crown, with note in            Windows.  Note that their precedence is to be drcided not by their
 Pictorial may be useful Jeremiah 22. 14 is curious                   succession, but their dates of dying out.  Many a contem-
  respecting architecture;  and its connection with - or              porary, but some survive the others by centuries.
 separation from religion.                                            Religion.	Ought to be the chief reason in Government  Grand passage
  Edinburgh. Aug 25th.  Heard to-day two very bad sermons             Bason Vol 1 p 196
 one from pure Scotch the other high Puseyite - the former            Manufacturers.    I was told by master of ironworks at Coalbrooke dale
 the most offensive the latter the least useful.  Both not             that the men employed in the severe work got about £2
  knowing how to fill up their time but the Scotchman                 a week, and that he had known a family in the receipt of
 doing it the most energetically - though by such                     £40  a year;  but that they were improvident.
 devices as - we commend to thee the Sick, besseching thee
 to - cure them - and we

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