Cheraw Gazette And Pee Dee Farmer

ARTIFICIAL GRANITE ROADS,

Since Wednesday week a number of

workmen have been employed in laying

down a new pathway in that part of Bird

Cage walk just at Storey's gate, and fronting

the late residence of the honorable Mrs.

Norton. The material composing the pathway

is a new invention, styled "artificial

granite," and is a "mineral, animal, and

vegetable combination." The process adopted

in the laying it down is similar to

that of the asphalte, the composition being

poured out boiling hot, upon the loose gravel,

with which it is amalgamated. A few

minutes suffice to make the composition

quite cold, and as hard as the hardest stone.

The appearance of that part of the pathway already finished is that of a finely polished and black block of marble. It is said to be impervious to wet, will not be affected by the sun, like the asphalt, and its durability is even greater than marble itself, which has been proved from the fact, that a rough piece of marble granite can be rubbed perfectly smooth on a block of this composition without apparently wearing the latter.

[London paper.]