"The bricks immediately lining the vaults would be all burnt to useless scrolls, black as charcoal...the next tier would be a little less withered, but hardly fit for service; and gradually, as you went higher and higher along the successive layers of kiln, you came to the midmost ones, sound, square, and perfect bricks, bringing the highest prices; from these the contents of the kiln gradually deteriorated in the opposite direction, upward." (Chapter 23, pp.156)
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