17? harvesting: 



flieaves, of courfe, part from them with a 

 degree of fpring, given by the ftraw com- 

 preiTed between them. 



VIII. The FORM OF STACKS. 



The llem is.ufually carried up fquare, and 

 high 3 but the roof very ilat, and hipped, 

 or doped on every fide : fo that the roof, 

 which in many DifbricSts contains nearly 

 one third of the contents of the Hack, does 

 not here, perhaps, contain a fixth of it. 

 The difficulty of pitching from the ground, 

 and the excellency of " reed" as a thatch, 

 may have affifled in fixing this prevailing 

 falhion. 



IX. The METHOD OF THATCH- 

 ING STACKS, in Wefl Deyonlhire, is 

 very judicious and eftedlual. The " reed" 

 is fpread thinly and evenly over the roof, 

 and is faftened with " fpars" or hazel rods, 

 pegged down to the butts of the fheaves, 

 and covered by the next courfe of reed, in 

 the manner that reed roofs are laid, in 

 Norfolk. 



But, in Cornwall, I faw the reed faflened 



on 



