64 MINUTES Nov. 



32. This done, the workman lays a coat of 



SETTING ON ftraight ftra-vv, fix or eight inches thick, acrofs 

 the ridge ; beginning, on either fide, at the up* 

 permoft butts of the reed, and finifliing with, 

 ftraight handfuls laid evenly acrofs the top of 

 the ridge. 



Having laid a length of about four feet in 

 this manner, he proceeds to fatten it firmly 

 down, fo as to render it proof againft wind and 

 rain. This is done by laying a " broachen 

 Jigger" (a quarter- cleft rod as thick as the 

 finger, and four feet in length) along the mid- 

 dle of the ridge, pegging it down at every four 

 inches with a double broach, which is firft 

 thruft down with the hands, and afterwards 

 driven with the legget, or with a mallet ufcd 

 for this purpofe. The middle Jigger being 

 firmly laid, the thatcher fmooths down the 

 draw with a rake and his hands, about eight or 

 nine inches on one fide, and, at fix inches from 

 the firft, lays another ligger, and pegs it down 

 with a fimilar number of double broaches : 

 thus proceeding to fmooth the ft raw, and to 

 foften on Jiggers at every fix inches, until he 

 reach the bottom of the cap. One fide flmih- 

 ed, the other is treated in the fame manner ; 

 and the firft length being completed, another 

 and another length is laid, and finiihed as the 



firft; 



