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but with the fame motion turned a very large Engine for cutting 

 the hardeft ftone, after the manner of Lapidaries ; and another 

 for boaring of Guns : and thefe, as in the Mill at Tufmore, either 

 feverally or all together, at plcafure. 



126. To thefe add the Mills for making French Early , erected 

 fome years fince upon the river near Caverjham, by one Mr. Bur- 

 naby, but are now carryed on by one Mr. Nelthrop of London, 

 Merchant : They are four in number, and differ from other Com 

 mills chiefly in the following particulars. 1 . In that they have 

 always double tackling. 2. The ftones not being the Cologne, but 

 ordinary white ftones ; which thirdly, are both of them cut the 

 fending way : and fourthly, the uppery?o/ze or runner, hung about a 



hands breadth diftant from the lower or bed ftone, alfo called the 

 Legier. They put in the Corn, about half a bulTiel at a time, not 

 at the eye, but round the hoops at the (ides of theftones ; they ftop 

 the /pout or tunnel, and let the Mill lun juft an hour, for if the 

 Corn ftay longer the heat will turn kyellow : then they let it out, 

 and fever the bran and flower from the Corn, and put it up again 

 into another 777/// of the fame kind, and let it run in the fame man- 

 ner another hoar, and the work is finished. 



127. Hither alfo muft be referred the Mault Kills of Henly, fo 

 thriftily contrived, thatthe Kill holes are placed in the backs of 

 their Kitchin Chimneys, fo that drying their mault with wood, the 

 fame fire ferves for that, and all the other ufes of their Kitchins be- 

 fide. To this place alfo belongs a fort of Oasl made about thirty 

 years fince by one Philips a Baker of Magdalen Varijf) Oxon, who 

 having a very great Oven, made it plain at the top and plaifter'd 

 it over, whereon laying mault, he dryed it with the fame fire that 

 heated his Oven for the bread, and thus made the belt mault that 

 Oxford afforded, and of neceffity the cheapeft, for the fire coft 

 him nothing. I have heard alfo of the fame method ufed at Henly 

 on the Thames ; and thefe, as fome have ventured to aflert, gave 

 the firft hints to the Invention of that fort of Kills whereby they 

 dry mault with coal ; but herein I dare not be too confident, not 

 knowing of what (landing thofe Kills are, otherwife the thing 

 feems to be likely enough. 



128. Thus having run through thofe of inferior rank, I come 

 next to the remarkable curiofities of Architecture in our moQtftately 

 buildings, and that have a more immediate relation to mankind 



Ll than- 



