Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c17.9

c17.9

Observe also, that the mortar here is not only to be well beaten and mixed together, but also laid very well, and every brick, or piece of brick, slushed in with the mortar, and every cranny filled up, yet not in thick joints, like the common *English* mortar; and also over every course of bricks, some to be thrown on very thin: And where the work hath stood, though but for a breakfast or a dining-time, before you begin again wet it well with this liquor with a ladle, and then lay on your fresh mortar; for this mortar, notwithstanding its being thus wetted, dries much sooner than one not used to it would conceive, but especially in hot weather.