i 7 8r. 



NORFOLK, 



SETTING OK 

 ROGFLETS. 



BUILDINGS. 



firft; until the other end of the ridge be 32. 

 reached. 



He then cuts off the tails of the ftraw, fquare 

 and neatly with a pair of ihears, level with the 

 uppermoft butts of the reed; above which the 

 cap (or molt properly the ROOFLET) fliews an 

 cave?, of about fix inches thick. 



Laftly^ he fweeps the fides of the main roof 

 with a bough of holly ; and the work is com- 

 pleted. (For the expence, fee BUILD INGS and 

 REPAIRS, Vol. I.) 



33- 



NOVEMBER 17. A very fecure way of laying 

 pan-tiles is fometimes practiled in this country. 



Having nailed on the pan-tile laths, the ti- 

 ler diflributes reeds, fo as juft to touch each 

 dther, between the pantile- laths -, and, to keep 

 them in their place^ inferts one end of a piece of 

 old plaftering lath or other fplinter, under the 

 ty ling- lath ; prefles it down upon the reed ; 

 and inferts the other end under the next lath ; 

 weaving, a$ it were, thefe fplinters between the 

 pan-tile laths and the reed. 



Upon the reed he fpreads a coat of mortar, 

 and on this lays the tiles. 



For dairy or other lean-to's, and for common 

 garrets, the reed is covered on the infide with 



VOL. II. F a coat 



