the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city: And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place: And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaister the house."-Leviticus xiv. 37, 40, 41, and 42. This course will not, however, suit every case, for when the rot has spread in many directions, the best and cheapest course is to consult some professional man, well versed in the peculiarities of dry rot, before determining upon any remedy, for we have shown in the course of this work that the disease may arise from various causes; and it is not a difficult matter to select the wrong remedy, and thus increase the disease. We trust the reader has found in this volume at least some hints which may be of service to him. A new house affected with dry rot is an unhealthy one to live in, and an old one is worse than the new; we mean the kind of house referred to in one line by an American poet, as follows: "O'er whose unsteady floor, that sways and bends." LONGFELLOW. [INDEX. Academy of Sciences, Holland, report on sea-worms 27, 171, 187, 284, 292 ::: in Batavia in Brazil in Ceylon and the Philippine Islands Belton House (Earl Brownlow's), beetles in carvings at Bentham (Sir S.), on drying oak Benzine, to destroy wood beetles Berkeley, on fungi : 167 253 179 115 177 48, 138 42 44 156 102 78 223, 226 90 166 23, 181, 182, 187 174 32 36, 43 162 Canadian white spruce deals liable to warp yellow wood liable to rot in damp situations Caoutchouc, solution of Cashiobury, carvings at, destroyed by beetles Ceylon, ants in Chalk, and other substances Champy's tallow process Chapman (W.), on dry rot 269 227, 228 246 161 144 25, 73, 112, 119, 122, 165, 167 Charcoal-see Oils, Whale, and Fish-to preserve wood |