263
In 1278. She had
The following extract from the Times Newspaper of the
28th of May, in reference to the Conflagration at Hamburg, will at once prove its great utility as a Roofing, viz.-
"It was remarked as a singular circumstance during the conflagration, that the Roofs covered with ASPHALTE, of which there are some here, opposed rather than encouraged the progress of the flames. It was imagined, on account of the substance of which these Roofs were composed, that they would easily catch fire, and be the cause of great mischief. Such, however, was not the case; for it appears that the fire had little or no effect on them, and when the roofs of the houses fell in, the ASPHALTE, in which a sort of rubble is mixed up, was found to have resisted the effects of the heat, and, like a mass of dirt, served rather to smother the flames than to give them increased vitality.
263
In 1278. She had
The following extract from the Times Newspaper of the
28th of May, in reference to the Conflagration at Hamburg, will at once prove its great utility as a Roofing, viz.-
"It was remarked as a singular circumstance during the conflagration, that the Roofs covered with ASPHALTE, of which there are some hore, opposed rather than encouraged the progress of the flames. It was imagined, on account of the substance of which these Roofs were composed, that they would easily catch fire, and be the cause of great mischief. Such, however, was not the case; for it appears that the fire had little or no effect on them, and when the roofs of the houses fell in, the ASPHALTE, in which a sort of rubble is mixed up, was found to have resisted the effects of the heat, and, like a mass of dirt, served rather to smother the flames than to give them increased vitality."
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