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Excerpt from Moisture Problems in Historic Masonry Walls: Diagnosis and Treatment Other advances were made in the nine teenth century. Water tables of granite or dense limestone were increasingly used, especially for public buildings, to prevent the upward rise of moisture within walls, and to direct rainwater away from the bases of buildings. The progress made in understanding and controlling moisture damage can be measured in The Architecture of Coun try Houses, published in 1850 by Andrew Jackson Downing. Downing was clearly aware of ground water problems when he wrote. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.