neer contented himself with making them by hand. all that day and the day following were employed in this work. the clay， soaked in water， was mixed by the feet and hands of the manipulators， and then divided into pieces of equal size. a practiced workman can make， without a machine， about ten thousand bricks in twelve hours; but in their two days work the five brickmakers on lincoln island had not made more than three thousand， which were ranged near each other， until the time when their comple
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