Excerpt from Portland Stone, Bèton Agglomèrè Argument Showing Its Suitability, Above All Other Material, for Head-Stones for Our National Cemeteries At the Paris Exposition bf 1867 there were presented specimens of the various applications of this important material, including a pavilion, as illustrative of its adapted ness to building in mass; lin'tels, cornices, friezes, paving slabs, monuments, urns, statues, and nearly every other im portant object in which stene is commonly employed, whether for useful or ornamental purposes. The Béton Aggloméré must be regarded as one of those new and useful things which the Exposition of 1867 was first to bring conspicuously before the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at 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.