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two longhandled copper ladles take both oil and 

 fritters out of the Copper, about halfe, and put it 

 into a Barrow (we call a Fritter-barrow) made with 

 two handles and barrell-boards set about halfe 

 a-quarter of one inch from the other, through which 

 the oyle runneth and the Fritters remain ; from which 

 the oyle being drained whilst another Coper of oyle 

 boils, they are cast into the stokehole and burnt, and 

 the barrow stands ready again on the first Oyle- 

 cooler, to receive what is taken out of the next 

 Copper. Out of this barrow the oyle runs into a 

 great thing we call a Cooler made of Deal-boards, 

 containing about five tuns, which is filled within an 

 inch of a hole (made in the side for the oyle to run 

 into the next spout) with water to cool the oyle, and 

 so the oyle runs upon the water, through this hole 

 into a spout about ten or twelve foot long, into 

 another cooler filled as aforesaid and out of that, 

 through a long spout into a third filled as aforesaid 

 and out of that, in a long spout into a Butt laid under 

 the end of this spout, which being full, the hole of 

 the Cooler, next the Butt is stopt till another Butt is 

 laid under, and then the plugg being taken out, it 

 filleth another, till we have done boyling. Then we 

 fill up our Oyles, when they are thoroughly cold, and 

 marke them and roule them into the water, rafting 

 twenty together, and so tow them aboard, hoyst 

 them into our ships, and stow them to bring them 

 home. 



" And for our finns, which grow in two Gumms in 

 the whales mouth (whereof in a whales mouth, great 



