Excerpt from A Rudimentary Treatise on the Manufacture of Bricks and Tiles, Vol. 1: Containing an Outline of the Principles of Brickmaking, and Detailed Accounts of the Various Processes Employed in the Making of Bricks and Tiles in Different Parts of England IV. In Holland and the Netherlands, the scarcity of stone led, at an early period, to the extensive use of brick, not only for domestic but for ecclesiastical buildings, and these countries abound in fine specimens of brickwork, often in two colours, combined with great taste, and producing a very rich effect, as in the celebrated examples at Leeuwarden in Friesland. It is worthy of remark, that in the fens of Lincolnshire and Norfolk, Where we should naturally have expected to have found the same material made use of, the churches, many of which are exceedingly fine specimens of architecture. 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.