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probable thar, as a menflruuai of aliment in 

 general, it is the moll. ivhoUfome water. 



The /ilualiofi of i\ water-cidein is generally 

 under the kitchen, or in a vacant corner of 

 the yard near the kitchen-door. 



The form oi'v.atcr-ciiicrns is various. The 

 deeper they are funk, the better they keep the 

 water. The cube is perhaps the moil: conve- 

 nient figure ; but a double cube would per- 

 haps keep water better. A ciftcrn nine feet 

 cubical would contain twenty-feven cubical 

 yards, or about Cxty v>'ine hogflieads of water. 



The ;;/^/^;7u-/jof waier-ciilerns in this DiU 

 trict are clay, bricks, and tarras. 



The melbod of waking haS larcly received a 

 confiderable impiovcment. When the art 

 was Icrfs known than it is at prcfcnt, an irre- 

 gular hole vc'as dug -, the determinate figure 

 of the cillern being given by the walls ; be- 

 hind which the clay v^'as rtimmcd. Now, the 

 intended form of the ciftcrn v^'hen finiHicd, is 

 given to the excavation ; wliofe fides are 

 fquared and plummed with the exaclncfs 

 with which a wall is carried up. On this 

 wall-like face of the excavation the clay is 

 laid flnjier-ivifc witii a trov.'el, coat over coat, 



two 



