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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 17, Issue 59, 27 July 1906, Page 7

The value of granite as a building material is ten to twenty-five times as great as that of bricks.... After granite comes limestone, slate, and sandstone. r A man of seventy has renewed his finger-nails no fewer than 186 times. T-yng ♦•*'*) long*'' of each' nail as f an inch, the total length grown on each finger has been 7ft. ©in. Meerschaum, the expensive white earth which is used for expensive pipes, is found in exceptional quantities in the village of Brussa, in Asiatic Tuifcay, where 2,000 small J?^l-MI^^ D S.J* r orkud now. (1003..)