100 A D if coHrfe of ¥ or cd-Trees. 



the diMetipMs o£ wood mtht StacJ^^ fee Chap. 27. to direftthe 

 lefs inftruded Pnrchafer : and I have been the more particular 

 upon this occafion i becaufe then our Fuel bought in Billet by the 

 Votch Cas they call it in London) there is nothing more deceitful 5 

 for by the vile iniquity of fome Wretches^ marking the Billets as 

 they come to the Wharfs Gentlemen are egregiouily cheated. I 

 could produce an inftance of a Friend of mine (and a Member o£ 

 this Society) for which the Wood-monger has little caufe to brag 5 

 fince he never durft come at him , or challenge his Money for 

 the Commodity he bought [5 becaufe he durft not ftand to the 

 meafitre. 



8. But I will now defcribe to you the Myjiery of Charking 

 (whereof fomething was but touch'd in the Procef^of extrafting 

 T'/troutof theF7»c/3 ^^^ receiv'dit fromamoftinduftrious/jer/itw, 

 and fo conclude the Chapter. 



There is made of Char-coal ufually three forts, viz. one for 

 the Iron-xvorks, a fecond for Gun-porpder, and a third for London 

 and the Court^ befides Small-coals^ of which we (hall alfo fpeak in 

 its due place. 



We will begin with that fort which is us'd for the Iron-roorks^ 

 becaufe the reft are made much after the fame manner, and with 

 very little difference. 



The beft Wood for this is good OaK^cwt into lengths of three foot, 

 as they fize it for the^^^ci^.- This is better then the Cord-vpood, 

 though of a larger meafure, and much us'd in Snffex. 



The Tpood cut, and fet mjiackf ready for the Coaling ; chufe 

 out fome level place in the Copfe, the moft free from ftubs, &c. 

 to make the Hearth on: In the midft of this ^re^ drive down a 

 ftake for your Centre, and with apole, having a ring faftn'd to one 

 of the extreams (or elfe with a Cord put over the Centre) defcribe 

 a Circumference from twenty, or more ketfemidiameter^ accor- 

 ding to the quantity of your wood defign'd for coaling, which be- 

 ing neer may conveniently be charked in that Hearth , and 

 which at onetime may be 12, 16, 20, 24, even to ^ojiacl^: If 

 12 therefore be the quantity you will coal, a Circle whofe diame- 

 ter is 24 foot, will fufEce for the Hearth ; If 20 ftack, a diameter 

 of 32 foots j If 30, 40 foot, and fo proportionably. 



Having thus marked out the ground,with Mattocks, haws and fit 

 inftruments, bare it of the Turf, and of all other combuftible ftuft 

 whatfoever, which you are to rake up towards the Peripherie, or 

 out-fide of the f/rf««f/erc«fe, for an «/e to be afterwards made of 

 it ; plaining, and levelling the ground within the circle : This 

 done, the wood is to be brought from the neereft parts where it is 

 Jiackid, in wheel-barrows 5 and firft the fmalleft of it plac'd at the 

 utmoft limit, or very margent of the Hearth, where it is to be fet 

 long-ways, as it lay in the Jiack.'^, the biggeft of the wood pitch, 

 or (et up on end round about againft the Jhiall-wood, and all this 

 within the circle, till you come within five, or (ix foot of the cen- 

 tre 5 at which diftance you Ihall begin to fet the wood in a Trian- 

 gular form (as in Fig. 2. A ) till it come to be three foot high : 



Againft 



