A DifcoHrfe of Foreft-Trces. 



fortionably as k fires, till they come about to the bottom ? all which 

 is difpatch'd in the fpace of two days. One of thefe heaps will 

 char threefcovejacks of Coal, which may all be carried at one time; 

 in a Waggon i and fome make the Court-coals after the fame man- 

 ner, Laftly, 



lo. Small-coals diXt made of the J^^Trf^, and hrnfi-VPOodyNhxchis 

 fliripped off from the branches of Copfe-vpood, and which is fome- 

 times bound up into Bavins for this ufe 5 though aUo it be 

 as frequently f^^r^e^s^ without binding, and then they caW it coom- 

 ing it together : This they place in fome neer fioor^ made level, 

 and freed of incumbrances, where fetting one of the Bavins or 

 part of the jpr ay, oi\fire, two men ftand ready to throw on Bavin 

 upon Bavin (as faft as they can take fire, which makes a very 

 great and fudden blaze) till they have burnt all that lyes neer the 

 place, to the number (it may be) of five, or Rx hundred Bavins : 

 But ere they begin to fet fire they fill great Tubs or Vefiels with 

 water, which ftand ready by them, and this they dafti on with 

 a great difii or [coup fo foon as ever they have thrown on all 

 xk\e\x Bavins, continually plying the great Ae4/> of glowing Co^/j-, 

 which gives a fudden ftop to the fury of the/re, whiles with a 

 great Rak/^ they lay, and fpread it abroad, and ply their cafting 

 of Toater ftill on the Coals, which are now perpetually turn'd by 

 two men with great Shovels, a third throwing on the water : This 

 they continue till no more fire appears, though they ceafe not 

 from being very hot : After this, they Jhovel them up into great 

 heaps, and when they are throughly cold, put them up in fack/ for 

 London , where they ufe them amongft divers Artificers, both 

 to kindle greater fires, and to temper, and aneal theif feveral 

 Works. 



The beft fea(bn for the fetching home of other Fuel, is from 

 "June '■) the ways being then moft dry, and paffable. 



103 



B the central-pole the place 

 of the tunnel. 



f////,. A the Wood laid in triangle. 



1 1. And thus we have fcen how for Houfe-boot, and ship-boot, 

 Tlovp-boot, Hey-boot and Fire-boot, the Planting, and Propagation 



of 



