6a MINUTES Nor 



32. deners in beating turf. The face of the leg- 



LAYING get is fet with large-headed nails to render it 



rough, and make it lay hold of the butts of 

 the reed. 



Another layer of reed is laid on, and bound 

 down by another fvvay^ fomewhat Ihorter thart 

 the laft i and placed eighteen or twenty inches 

 above it; and above this another and another^ 

 continuing to fhorten the fways until they be 

 brought off to nothing, and a triangular corner 

 of thatching formed. 



After this the fways are ufed their whold 

 length* whatever it happens to be, uhtil the 

 workman arrives at the finilhing corner. 



By proceeding in this irregular manner feams 

 between the courfes are prevented ; and unne- 

 ceffary ihifting of ladders avoided. 



The face of the roof is formed and adjufted^ 

 like the eaves, by driving the reed with the 

 legget ; which operation, if performed by a 

 good workman, not only gives the roof a beau- 

 tiful polilhed furface^ but at the fame time 

 fattens the reed ; which, being thickefl to- 

 wards the buttSj becomes, like a tapering pinj 

 the tighter the farther it is driven. 



Reed running from four to fix or eight feet 

 long, the heads meet at the ridge of the roof-r 



whilft 



