WEST DEVONSHIRE. rj; 



The body or infide of the DevonflHrc 

 kiln is not well formed. The fides are 

 too flraight : the cavity is not fufficiently 

 eggfliaped, — is too conical, — too narrow 

 in the middle, — the contents, of courfe, 

 hang, — do not fettle down freely and even- 

 ly, — as they do in a well fliaped kiln. The 

 rim is guarded with a curb of large 

 moorftones. 



The flones are brought up from the 

 water fide, on horfeback, or upon affes ; 

 and, being diftributed round the top of the 

 kiln, are there broken, and thrown into the 

 kiln with fliovels ; without the extra 

 trouble of carrying them in baikets : a 

 faving, probably, which counterbalances 

 the apparently extra expence of carrying 

 up the unbroken flones, on horfeback, 

 inftead of in carts : fo that we have, here, 

 as in many other inftances, in Rural Ma- 

 nagement, two roads, of fimilar lengtli and 

 expediency, leading to the fame end. 



The Fuel chiefly, or wholly, J^Fe/Jh culm. 



Lime is separated into two forts, 

 at the kiln. Thofe who carry it to a great 



dif-. 



