LIME
"This essential ingredient in all the operation regarding this useful article is vended at the wharfs in London in bags, and varies in its price from thirteen to fifteen shillings per hundred pecks."
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"The ruins of the ancient Roman buildings are found to cohere so strongly, as to have caused an opinion that their constructors were acquainted with some kind of mortar, which in comparison with ours, might justly be called cement; and that, to our want of knowledge of the materials they used, is owing the great inferiority of modern buildings in their durability. The indefatigable pains and perseverance, for which the Romans were so remarkable in all their undertakings, leave no room to doubt that they would take care to have the ingredients mixed together as well as possible. The consequence of all this is, that the buildings formed in this manner are all as firm as if cut out of a solid rock; the mortar being equally hard, if not more so, than the stones themselves."
From Nicholson’s New Practical Builder