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91* There has fcarcely one thatched roof upon 



REPAIRS. this eftate efcapedj entirely, its fury. Many 

 of them however are only ruffled ; but great 

 numbers (an hundred at lead) are broken, more 

 or lefs ; fome of the breaches confiderable : 

 whilft the tiled roofs have efcaped without 

 any confiderable injury. 



Had the practice propofed in MIN. 63. been 

 adopted a few years ago, perhaps not a breach 

 Would have happened ; for where the roofs 

 have been overlooked in the courfe of the laft 

 year, even the thatched ones are hardly ruffled ; 

 whereas, in the flate in which feveral of them 

 Hill remained, there is three or four months 

 work of a thatcher to repair them. 



THATCH. Reed in particular ought to be driven or 



relaid whenever it begins to flip, or the bind- 

 ings begin to decay : it is the reed-roofs in 

 general which have fuffered. 



REED. There is one advantage in reed, however ; 



it may mod of it be gathered up and re-* 

 laid. 



REPAIRS. MARCH 14. The bricklayer and thatcher 



employed upon this eftate live at a diftance. 



This 



