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 complete desiccation would permit them to be used in building the oven, that is to say, in three or four days.
Gyakorlott munkás, gép nélkül, mintegy tízezer téglát gyárt naponta; a Lincoln-sziget öt téglavetője azonban, akárhogy igyekezett is, két nap alatt sem boldogult többel, mint háromezer darabbal; ezeket sorba rakták, száradni: ha mind kiszikkadt, vagyis három-négy nap múlva, akkor sor kerülhet a téglaégetésre.