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two or three inches thick ; and againft this 

 firm even face of plaftering the brick-work 

 is raifcd. The bottom is, or ought to be 

 in all cafes, bedded with three or four inches 

 thick of itrong clay, beaten into a fmooth 

 even waxlike fubftancie. On this flooring of 

 clay a double floor of brick is laid ; and on 

 the marp-in of this the fide-walls are carried 

 Up half a brick thick. The bricks arc, I 

 believe, invariably laid in tarras. 



The cGveritig fimilar to that of a well ; 

 ■with a pump, or a roller and bucket. The lat- 

 ter, perhaps, the more eligible ; efpecially if 

 the admiflion-pipe were carried down to near 

 the bottom of the clllcrn •, by which means 

 the water at the furface would always re- 

 main undifturbed and pure. 



5. Painting Window-Leads. This is 

 not introduced as a thing of importance : but 

 the practice feems to be peculiar to this 

 country. It gives a degree of neatnefs plea- 

 fing to the eye •, and the paint is faid to be a 

 preferver of the lead. The colour invariably 

 white. 



6. Mortar Floors. A new fpecies of 

 cottLige-flooring has lately been thought of, 



and 



