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This fummer a receptacle for water in a brick- 1 3 1 . 

 yard being wanted, 1 had one built of bricks, CISTERN'S. 

 Jaid in clay, and furrounded with a coat of the 

 fame material : it holds water perfectly. 



Afterwards, I built a hog-ciftern in the fame 

 manner. This morning, on enquiry, I find 

 that not only the tenant, but his wife and her 

 maids, are fully fatisfied with it. 



It was built in this manner A pit five feet 

 and a half long, by four feet wide, and five feet 

 deep, was funk in the place moft convenient to 

 the dairy, kitchen, and hog-yard jointly. 



The bottom of the pit was bedded with fomc 

 extraordinarily fine clay, fetched from the fea- 

 coaft for this purpofe ; moiftetted and rammed 

 down ; and its furface fmoothed over with a 

 trowel. On this flooring were laid three courfes 

 of bricks, in clay-mortar (the beft of the clay 

 being taken for this purpofe), and in fuch a 

 manner^ that the joints of one courfe fell in the 

 middle of the bricks of the courfe beldw ; the 

 whole being laid long-ways j not croffed, in the 

 ufual manner. 



The fides were carried up half a brick thick 

 (thatis^abrick in width) with morrar of fine clay; 

 and, in a vacancy left between the brick-work 

 and the fides of the pit, moift clay was firmly 



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