weather-bricks

Updated: May 26, 2025

Men of cultivated minds see, in my old house and chimney, a goodly old elephant-and-castle. All feeling hearts will sympathize with me in what I am now about to add. The surgical operation, above referred to, necessarily brought into the open air a part of the chimney previously under cover, and intended to remain so, and, therefore, not built of what are called weather-bricks.

Herman Melville - I and My Chimney