Excerpt from Architectural Pottery: Bricks, Tiles, Pipes, Enamelled Terracottas, Ordinary and Incrusted Quarries, Stoneware Mosaic, Faiences, and Architectural Stoneware The rapid exhaustion Of quarries from which we have drawn for years obliges us to get supplies from greater and greater distances, and so to raise inordinately the price of building stones. We can only replace them by calling to our aid artificial materials, such as iron, brick, terra-cotta, cement, etc. Ancient examples of the substitution Of terra-cotta for stone are frequent in Persia. Jules Laurens and Dieulafoy have shown them to us in the imposing buildings which they have sketched and reproduced from the remarkable ruins excavated on the sites Of ancient cities like Suse. 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.