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I ? . make them touch every joift, as well as each 



HAY -CHAM, other. No nails or other confinement. 



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The clay being well foaked-with water, the 

 principal part of it was mixed with long wh'eat- 

 ftraw; which was well worked into it by the 

 means of a horfe, or man, treading it, and by 

 raking it about with a turnep-hook ; the reft 

 made mortar-wife, with a fmall quantity of 

 fhort ftraw. 



The rods being bedded, and the clay prer 

 pared, the " dauber" laid a plank acrofs the 

 rods to prevent his mifpkcing them with his 

 feet ; and, {landing on this, laid en a thick 

 coat of the ftrawy clay, fo as to cover the 

 thicker! of the fplints about an inch thick, 

 with a dung-fork ; working it well in be- 

 tween the crevices of the rods, and making it 

 as level on the top as that rough tool would 

 make it. This done, he went over it again 

 with the mortar-clay, (ftill (landing on his 

 plank) and gave it a thin finifhing coat with a 

 trowel. The thicknefs of the rods and the 

 two coats of clay is about three inches :-thc 

 thinner they are the fooner they dry, and the 

 lighter they are for the joifts and timbers. 



Where, from the uncouthnefs of the rods, the 

 clay forced through between them, the dauber 



with 



