^8 A Difconrfe of Foreft- Trees. ' 



others, as harder, longer-/df//»^, better heatings and cheerfully 

 burning i for which we have commended the Aflj^ c^c. In the 

 foregoing Paragraphs, and to which I pretend not here to add 

 much, for the avoiding repetitions ^ though even an HiSiory of 

 2. the beft way of Charking would not mU-become this Difiourfe. 

 S' But in this penury of that dear Commodity, to incite all ingenious 

 perfons, ftudious of the benefit of their Country, to think of ways 

 how onr Woods may be prefer ved, by all manner of ^irts which 

 may prolong the lafting of our Fuel, I would give the beft encou- 

 ragements. Thofe that (hall ferioully confider the intolerable mi- 

 fery of the poor Cauchi, the then inhabitants of the Lore-Countries 

 deicrib'dby Tliny, lib.i6.cap.i. (how opulent fbever their late In- 

 duiiry has render'd them J for want only oirvood for F«e/,will have 

 realbn to deplore the exceffive decay of our former ftore of that 

 ufefiil Commodity , and by what ftiifts our Neighbours the Hol- 

 landers do yet repair that defeft, be invited to exercife their inge- 

 nuity : For befides the Dung of BeaSis^ and the Turf for their 

 chimneys, they make ufe of Stoves both portable, and ftanding j 

 and truly the more frequent ufe of thofe Inventions in our great, 

 wafting Cities fas the cuftom is through all Germany) as alfo of 

 thofe new, and excellent Oz^e»j invented by Dr ZCCj^er, for the in- 

 comparably baking of Bread, c^c. would be an extraordinary ex- 

 pedient of huft)anding our Fuel-^ as well as the right n^ingling, 

 and making up of Char-coal-duB, and loam, as 'tis hinted to us 

 by Sir Hugh Plat, and is generally us'd in MaSfricht and the 

 Country about it ; then which there is not a more (weet, lafting 

 and beautiful Fuel •-, The manner of it is thus : 



4. Take aboirt one third part of the fmalleft of any Coal, Pit, 

 Sea or Char-coal ; and commix them very well with loam (where- 

 of there is in (bme places to be found a fort fomewhat combufti- 

 ble) make thefe up into balls, as big as an ordinary Cannon-bullet 

 or fomewhat bigger , or if you will in any other form, like bricl{- 

 bats, c^c. expole thefe in the air till they are throughly dry ; they 

 will be built into the moft orderly fires you can imagine, burn 

 very clear, givea wonderful heat, and continue a very long tinae. 



Two or three Ihort Billets cover'<l with Char-coal laft much 

 longer, and with more life, then twice the quantity by it felf, 

 whether Char-coal alone, or Billet 5 and the Billets under the 

 Char-coal being undifturbM, will melt as it were into Char-coals of 

 fucha lafting fize. 



If Small-coals be fpread over the Char-coal, where you burn it 

 alone, 'twill bind it to longer continuance j and yet more, if the 

 Small-coal be made of the roots oiThornes, Briers and Brambles. 

 Confult L.Bacon, Exp.jy^. 



The Sea-weed which comes in our Oyfier-bafrels laid under 

 Nen>-C ait le-coal to kindle it (as the ufe is in fome places) will (as I 

 aminform'd) make it out-laft twogreat/rejof fimpleftftf/j, and 

 maintain a glowing luculent heat without wafte : It was not try'd 

 by my Friend, what it would do as to Fuel burnt by it felfi 

 but, that it adds much life, continuance and aid, to our fullen Sea- 

 coal 



