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Excerpt from Geology
I. An, ordinary dwelling-house, such as those in which most of us live, is built Of various materials, and one Of these is always stone. In the walls, the hearths, the chimney-pieces, and the roofs, stone is used. But in each Of these cases the kind Of stone usually differs from that employed in the rest Of the building. Thus the walls may be made Of freestone, or limestone, or brick, the hearths of ?agstone, the roofs of slate or tiles, the chimney-pieces Of marble, while still another sort Of stone called coal is burnt in the fireplaces. GO out into the streets and you find a still greater diversity. The causeway-stones are of one kind, those Of the foot-pavement Of another. Many dif ferent ornamental varieties are made use of in the Shops and buildings. SO that merely by looking at houses and streets you may readily perceive that there are many different kinds of stone.
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