Both the quarrying of the stone at Pulo Ubin, and the felling of the timber required in the erection of this lighthouse, were by the work of Indian convicts.
But we must pass on to deal with the industries beyond the walls, and we shall limit our description to the making of bricks, lime, and cement, and the quarrying of stone, and well digging.
In short, they had to invent the art of quarrying and working mines.
No inconsiderable part of the labor on the statues must have been that of quarrying the large blocks of stone out of which they were carved, and transporting them to the place where found.
In quarrying out the interior the long-forgotten workmen had left at intervals great rudely sculptured blocks that served as supporting pillars to the roof.
The Government slaves wear an iron ring on one ankle, and are locked up at night in the bagnios, while by day they do all the heavy work of the city, as cleaning, carrying, and quarrying stone.
Worst of all was the sore labour of quarrying stone for building, and carrying it down from the mountains to the shore.
At Mojopahit it is the same old story of quarrying for building material: several sugar-mills in the neighbourhood with the dwellings of managers and employees, have been wholly or partly constructed of Mojopahit bricks.
The local industries include the manufacture of rubber goods, brewing, quarrying and iron-founding.
The principal industries of Branford are the manufacture of malleable iron fittings, locks and general hardware, the quarrying of granite, and oyster culture.
The manufacture of morocco leather goods and the quarrying of the lithographic stone of the vicinity are carried on, and there is trade in cattle, grain, wine, truffles and dressed pork.
Some fine mosaics have been here unearthed and immediately destroyed, in sheer wantonness, by the natives quarrying building-stone.
Surely," Amuba exclaimed, "they can never be thinking of quarrying the rock away!
Quarrying the rock, grading the road, surfacing it, and maintaining it in good condition thereafter--all these duties fell within the province of the engineers.
Systematic quarryingof siliceous crystalline rocks in New England began at Quincy in about 1820.
Granite is the chief mineral, and granite quarrying is the principal mineral industry of the state.
Since the quarrying of the rock had commenced, my work had been overseeing the native help, of which we had some fifteen cutting and hauling.
The fact that I was acting segundo over the quarrying outfit, was taken advantage of by Fidel to clear his skirts and charge the extra rock to my matrimonial expectations.
Besides lead, gypsum and zinc are raised, to a small extent; and for the quarrying of limestone Derbyshire is one of the principal English counties.
Neither the one nor the other was true, because he had from Julius for the Tomb only one thousand ducats, spent in those months of quarrying marble at Carrara.
The method of quarrying is not unlike that of the marble quarries on the earth.
You can buy one for a song and a granite-quarrying industry sounds safe and will catch the cautious.
We remained there a few days looking over the island, and I noticed that some one had started quarrying the granite of which the island is composed.
The quarrying of Purbeck stone and the raising of potters' clay are the chief industries.
As early as the 14th century the quarrying and export of marble gave employment to the men of Corfe, and during the 18th century the knitting of stockings was a flourishing industry.
The quarrying of this famous marble, the purer quality of which is of close grain (the fine statuary marble), is a source of employment to a vast number of workmen.
Lorenzo; and the workmen of the Opera del Duomo continued the quarrying business in his absence.
In the first year of his pontificate, Julius commissioned me to make his tomb, and I stayed eight months at Carrara quarrying marbles and sending them to the Piazza of S.
Michelangelo, having been sounded on the subject, chose to go on quarrying at Carrara rather than to take those belonging to the State of Florence.
Years passed over him of thwarted endeavour and distracted energies--years of quarrying and sculpturing, of engineering and obeying the vagaries of successive Popes.
Nevertheless we cannot but regret the fate which drove him to consume years of hampered industry upon what Condivi calls "the tragedy of Julius's tomb," upon quarrying and road-making for Leo X.
Well, then, after quarrying and selecting the blocks which he deemed sufficient, he had them brought to the sea, and left a man of his to ship them off.
From Florence Michelangelo proceeded again to Carrara for the quarryingof marble.
He spent a large part of the year 1516 at Carrara, quarrying marbles, and even hired the house of a certain Francesco Pelliccia in that town.
Quarrying into the walls, breaking up floors, sawing through bars, and picking locks were frequent devices to gain release.
