Part 35 (1/2)

CHAPTER XVI

BRICKS, MORTAR, GRANITE, SLATE, LIMESTONE, OR CALCAREOUS ROCKS, STEEL, EARTHS, VOLCANOES, AND EARTHQUAKES

Of what are Bricks composed?

Of clay, dried by the heat of the sun, or burnt in kilns; their color varies with the different degrees of heat to which they are subjected in burning In the East, bricks were baked in the sun; the Ro the space of tih, unbaked state, just as they were for?

Bricks appear to have been in use at a very remote period of antiquity, both from the account of them in the Holy Scriptures, and from the remains of them which have been found; the Tower of Babel and the walls of Babylon were built of theyptians, as appears from the history of the Jews before their deliverance by Moses In the book of Exodus, we are told that this captive people were compelled to make bricks for that nation The Ros, built with massive square stones; but towards the end of the Republic they began to use brick, borrowing the practice fros of the succeeding Emperors were composed of them, as the Pantheon, &c

_Massive_, bulky and heavy

By as the Tower of Babel erected, and why?

By the descendants of Noe's three sons, Sem, Cham, and japheth; they were extre a theht reach to heaven Sennaar was the original name of the country about Babylon

_Descendants_, those descended from a particular person or family

What rehty suddenly frustrated their purpose by confusing their language and causing them all to express their words by different sounds; hence arose the nues spoken by the nations of the earth; and thus what they ilory, was made an awful memento of their pride and folly

_Frustrated_, prevented

_Monus is preserved

_Me; that which reood effect did this event produce?

God, who at all tiood out of evil, by this means caused the other parts of the earth to be peopled; for this visitation having effectually broken up their scherated in parties, and dispersed themselves over different parts of the world

_Scherated_, removed from one country to another

_Dispersed_, separated