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will not require more tiling, than would 

 be made ufe of without it. One great 

 advantage derived from hipping, is, in 

 the building's being better braced to- 

 gether, and more fecure from the effect 

 of tempeils; for where the gable-ends 

 are carried up in peaks, to any con- 

 fiderable height, without chimnies to 

 ftrengthen them, they are not fo well 

 fitted to refift an end- wind. 



The ceiling fhould be between the 

 joifls, nailing firft a few laths at about 

 a foot apart, crofs-ways, and the other 

 laths length-ways over them ; otherwife 

 the mortar has nothing to get hold of. 

 This makes lefs cxpence than ceiling 

 over the joifts, and is bcfides better cal- 

 culated to retain the mortar, and will 

 afford more fpace ; for the joills being 

 left naked, will be very ufcful to hang 

 many things to. The ceiling joifls upon 

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