^o BUILDINGS. T2. 



lixteen-pence each foot in length ; which, upon 

 a roof of fixteen feet and a half fpar, is an ad- 

 ditional expence of four (hillings each fquare 

 of reeding. 



The carriage is in proportion to the dif- 

 tance. Taking twenty miles as a medium dif- 

 tance ; and one fhilling a mile as a medium, 

 price •, the expence is twenty iliillings a " load" 

 of fixty fathom, or forty ihillings a hundred; 

 which hying five fquares is a further addition 

 of eight fliillings a fquare : therefore the 

 whole expence of a covering of reed fetched 

 twenty mileg may be laid at thirty Ihillings a 

 fquare *. 



. X am the more minute on this head, as I fee 

 this valuable material entirely neglcdied, as a 

 covering for buildings, in molt parts of the 

 kingdom. 



5. The FLaoRjNG-MATERiALsqf this Diflri(^ 

 aye, for upper-floors, deal, afn, elm, znd poplar 

 ^ards: fometimes clay is yfed for cottages, and 

 for common garrets; but, for the ground-floor, 



fquare bricks, paving-tiles — — provincially, 



*' pavements" — a.re, in farm-houfes, the almofl 

 univerfal flooring : even the beft rooms, of the 



» For the method of laying reed and fcttingon the roof- 



icg, fee Mix. 32. 



firll 



