4793. on the valué and uses of the larch tree. 173 
with the hovels that the poor people in many parts 
ot Britain, are obliged to content themselves with. 
A Carniolian cottage, which may last without 
standing in need of any repairs for centuries, is thus 
reared. A beam of larch wood is squared and laid 
lengthwise in a small trench, made where the wall 
is to be reared, as far as the wall is meant to ex- 
tend. Another beam of equal length is also squa- 
red, though of somewhat smaller dimensions, intend- 
ed to form the top of the wall. Ocher beams are 
then squared and cut into equal lengths, the height 
of the intended’ wall. Upon each of these beams 
which are intended to stand upright close by the 
side of each other,.and thus form the wall, are cut a 
tenon at each end, and into the beam at bottom are 
cut mortoises, to receive these tenons at proper dis- 
tances, and corresponding mortoises in the beam 
which is to be put at top. The uprights are then 
put into the mortoises in the sole beam, and leay- 
ing a blank for the door; and cutting the uprights 
at a proper height for windows, the top beam is put 
on above, and the whole’ driven down tight. Thus 
is formed one of the walls. The others are com- 
pleted after the same manner with wonderful neat- 
nefs and facility. Couples of the same wood are then 
placed on the walls to formthe roof; and the whole 
is lathed over, and covered in with cingles of the 
same wood. The work is then finifhed. In a little 
time there oozes out from the pores of the wood, a 
kind of juice, at first brownifh, which gradu-lly be- 
comes black. This serves as a kind of varnith, 
which at the same time fills up all the small cran- 
pies so as to cement the whole into one mafs, which 
