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thatcher draws it through on one fiue of the 32. 



fway, and enters it again on tlie contrary fide, 

 both of the fway and of the fpar : the afilftant 

 draws it through ; unthreads it; and, with the 

 two ends of the yarn, makes a knot round the 

 fpar , thereby drawing the fway, and confe- 

 quently the reed, tight down to the roof: 

 whilft the thatcher above, beating the fway 

 and prefling it down, afiifts in making the work 

 the firmer. The aiTutant having made good the 

 knot below, he proceeds with another length 

 of thread to the next fpar ; and fo on till the 

 fway be bound down the whole length ; name- 

 ly, eight or ten feet. 



Another ftratum of reed is now laid on up- 

 on the nrft, fo as to make the entire coat 

 eighteen or twenty inches thick at the butts; 

 and another fway laid along, and bound down, 

 about twelve inches above the fir ft. 



The caves being thus completely fet, they 

 are adjufted and formed , not fquare with the 

 fpars, but nearly horizontal : nor are they 

 formed by cutting ; but by " driving" them 

 with a " legget ;" a tool made of a board 

 eight or nine inches fquare, with a handle two 

 feet long, fixed upon the back of it, oblique- 

 ly, in the manner of the tool ufed by gar- 

 deners 



