The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-10-04

Ions
This very lurpriiing iniance of the value of Iron
Railways cannot fail of making lively inpreifion on
every who is deiirous of the Improvement of
his country, for it is of improvement which
belongs peculiarly to Great-B Britain The bowels of
the Hand filed with the proper materials for their
contraction; the expence may be calculated before
hand to fraction and they are productive neither
OF damage nor OF inconvenience to the surrounding
country. In the particular inhance of the Surrey
Iron Railway the benefits the public will he meal
culabie-The decGvity during the fix miles where
TINS feat was performed, is only quarter of an
inch IN yard; aud yet 70 bad is the line of coun-
Wy LOT ear...ge, that without the Railway the fame
horfe could not have drawn weight for the
Zane diitance in three hours Now however, all the
riches with which the Surrey Hills abound will be
opened the country, and they of truly valu-
able kind. Merfham Hills are full of that rich grey
chalk from which the ineR lime is made, and which
will doubt, on of its comparative cheapnei
be now introduced into common ufe. Its character
is, that it will take five fix bufhes of wahed
Thames fand TO one buihel of the lime, and the NOR
tar thus made will become indIoluble either in the
wet or the dry. We have leen trial made of it,
where after Jingle fortnight, block of brick work
was riven afunder by gunpowder, and the feparation
oblerved have taken place in the body of the
brick, not in the joints Of the work It is the rong
eft ot all the common cements and it has properties
which render II truly valuable for darp fituations
grows in motif confined air. and white chalk lime
made up it frequently is with road fluff, and CON-
ing into contact with green wood ll-burnt bricks
alhit this Perncious vegetation and uDdermines the
building. Grey fone lime is the iIrea preierva-
tive againf this evil and ought invariably to be ufed
IN foundations. The expence will be leis than that
OF common chalk, eliminating it by the work it will
do, FOR one buhel of white chalk lime will only take
one buih-l of iand-whereas one buhel of grey lime
will take FIVE bufhels of and-fo that the quantity
OF mortar for uie is three one, and the fri ex-
pence Of the lime is not double A hundred OF white
lime we believe cor los and hundred of grey lime
which VIII 90 three times as FAR, will come under
twenty ihilngs to any part of the 1t has the
advantage alto of feting in few minutes, and if
worked with hot it may be uied in the fevereft
froa. The quantity in the Surrey Hills is inexhaua-
i5le.
The hills ALTO abound with white chalk, with hnts
for the manufacture of porcelain, aud till more for
the highways The manner in which the foundati-
on of the railway has been made, by a competition
of white chalk and hints, pounded watered, and roll
ed with FINAL fprnking of gravel ON the top, will
flew the eonmifioners Of the roads near London
how they may mend their ways; and the Railway
will furnifh them with the materials at the cheapef
rate.
There are alto nexhaunibe ouarries of beautiful
aone at Mertham, upon which faw mills will forth
with be ereaed-the ftones will be hewn To any de-
fred form, and rendered, we hope, for the purpofe
Of building, as cheap or cheaper than the tpfwieh
brick the Roman cement. The mines of Fuller
earth will ALTO be worked at much cheaper rate
than heretofore and the immene quantity of produce
TIM. be brought down the Railway, will induce
the perfons employed in the trade carry up Goals
manure, and goods of all kinds at a very low rate,
as they NUT oiherwife return up empty. They are
ready deliver Goals at Is. per chaldron under
the price charged by the common conveyance,
the eonfumer ehufng his own kind Of coal, aud ha-
wing tie pool mesfure.
This work has been thus complicated in lef, than
four years and &c VIII from this day become pro-
dg5iye concern