Excerpt from Observations on Limes, Calcareous Cements, Mortars, Stuccos and Concrete, Vol. 1: And on Puzzolanas, Natural and Artificial; Together With Rules Deduced From Numerous Experiments for Making an Artificial Water Cement, Equal in Efficiency to the Best Natural Cements of England, Inproperly Termed Roman Cements; And an Abstract of the Opi In this Treatise, the various properties of limes, of calcareous mor tars and cements, as well as of puzzolanas, have been discussed in the amplest manner, and reduced to a system, no part of which, however. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.