Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (2 of 5)
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Transcription
Nearby his family was building a house. The method of making wall is to mix up planks, the desired width, then fill in between with adobe mud mixed with straw to hold it together. This manner of working over farthings thrusting on this earth to wedge it in tightly. Sun-dried bricks are often used also for house walls. There are large black clay tiles at the hearth, one third on many of the ridges as.