CO129-020 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [5-8] — Page 206

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10.

- pine, American and Baltic.

The timbers

are

placed throughout, the

distances apart (12 in.) recommended by the best

practical authors, vir: «Fredgold and Nicholson,

case are

and in every given by the former,

equal to the dimensions

in some instances exsceeding.

The centre roof is queen-poct, the outer ones king-post, well framed and secured with

bolts and straps.

The whole of the woodwork in fitments of the interior is of teak, including doors, windows, sashes, and jalousies, the fastenings of the best, hinges and bolts all brass, locks mortice!

The internal plastering of the

very

very

best

description, finished to teak grounds with plaster of Paris ; the cornices and flowers throughout, cast

by a

an experienced plasterer, and the external

1 finished with Roman cement. On the

cornices

whole it is one

buildings which

of the most substantial

can

be erected.

Frue

?

True Copys.

(Signed) Chas. St Geo (leverly.

(Frvelopy)

200

Mains

Colonial fecutary

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