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fome of which 30 were harnefled : but all 

 ftones that could be got at were by fome means 

 or other carried off. 



This work of breaking the ftones by fire is 

 very curious, and exceedingly ufeful t Mr* 

 Herbert appeared to have attended very clofely 

 to the operation. He informed me that they firft 

 light a good fire, which in about a quarter of 

 an hour enables them to beat off the outward 

 fkin of the ftone with a iledge hammer, and 

 they then immediately light a fecond fire, 

 which foon makes the flone crack. The men 

 obferve to keep it a lively brifk fire, free from 

 afhes j when the flone cracks, they aflifl it 

 with a flrong blow of the hammer, which then 

 burfls it afunder, and is at once broken in 

 pieces without difficulty. 



In ploughing the land, as foon as this work 

 was done, the remaining roots of furze, &c. 

 were fo large, that he was forced to fatten two 

 ploughs together with chains, and then, with 

 a great force of bullocks, tore up the roots, 

 the ploughs and tackle being remarkably 

 flrong* The afhes of the wood, &c being 

 fpread with thole of the rubbifh, numerous 

 ploughings were given. The foil a thin gra- 

 vel, of a whitifh hungry appearance, but lime 

 changed it at once to a rich brown colour* The 

 lafl ploughing turned in the lime i upon 

 which, Mr. Herbert, frefh from Tuli and 

 Randal determined to become a driller, drilled 

 it with wheat, the cleared proof in the world 

 how completely the ground had been reclaim- 

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