DIGITAL ARCHIVE of SLAVERY to FREEDOM at MONTICELLO   (beta)

Lime.

a bushel of limestone weights 114.℔ & makes 2. bushels of slacked lime.

1797.

Aug. by a tolerably exact trial 1. hhd. of unslacked limestone made 1½ hhd of slacked lime, wanting about ½ bushel. and 15½ bushels of slacked lime laid 1000. bricks in a wall of 1½ brick thick. we may say then that 10. bush of limestone are required to 1000. bricks.

it takes a bushel of lime to give 3. coats of plaister to 4. square yards on brick wall.

a cord of limestone of 128. cub. feet or 102½ bushels make 6. waggon loads

Fresco painting. Schneider charges a dollar a yard, he finding paint Etc or 8/. [Dollars] a day, paint Etc found him. he can do half a yard an hour.

the cost of iron pipes at Philada. is as follows. 22.I. diam. is 6.25 D pr foot.—20 cost 5.

16.I. diam. cost 3⅓ – 10 = 2.40 – 8 = 1⅔ – 6 = 1.10 – 4 = .64 – 3 = .45 - 1½ = .40

Sheet iron. a square foot weighs 1. to 1½℔ & costs 20. cents.	}	Philadelphia 1792.
Sheet copper. costs about 40. cents the square foot.

the largest sheet iron I have seen is 21.I by 8f. 3.I.

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a box of tin contains 220 or 230 sheets 13¼I. by 10⅛ = 11/12 of a foot and weighs 152.℔.

it costs 13.D. and will cover 1 square & a half of roof.

a man puts on a square a day.

		cents
Bohemian glass costs of	the least thickness	.16 the square foot	⎫ ⎬ ⎭	Donath. Philadelphia. 1792.
	1½ thickness	.20
	double thickness for coaches	.30

Bringhurst supposes that no sheets of glass are made larger than 4. feet.

a workman at Genoa to whom I showed a draught of my chimney-pieces, gave me the following estimate of what they would cost in the different kinds of marble of which he gave me samples.

	price of the cubic foot of marble		architrave alone		architrave & entablat.		but if only a plain fascia 6.I. wide 1.I. thick
	H	S		H		H	H	S
Common marble	4–	10	90		170		2–	1+
Marble of Carrara	12–		105	.	217	–10	5–	11+
Jasper of Sicily	40–		161	–	400	–	18–	8+
Verde Antico.	270–		620	–	1900	–	124–	4+