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rottenness ; where covered places cannot be had, the 

 strung leaves are hnng in the open air from l)ranches 

 of trees, or poles horizontally tixed to upright post?, 

 the poles being five or six feet asunder ; from nails 

 driven into these poles the strung leaves called hanks 

 are hung, (an<l in this early stage rain will not injure 

 them,) until the stem of the leaf has considerably 

 shrunk, and the leaf itself become brown and tough, 

 and reduced in weight. When sufficiently dry, the 

 hanks are to be doubled and redoubled until each 

 forms a fiat fold of six or eight inches in breadth, 

 (the stalks all inclining one way) and then neatly 

 and evenly laid and pressed on one another, to the 

 breadth of from four to six of the folded hanks, tak- 

 ing care that the stalks of the outward row shall be 

 placed inward to ensure their due reduction Ity the fer- 

 mentation ; in circular heaps for a small quantity, in 

 oblong heaps of from three to eight cvvt. and covered 

 with half made soft hay, in depth from twelve to 

 eighteen inches, over which cloths are to be laid 

 and secured down tightly to the fioor with v/eights, 

 to keep in the heat. After lying in this state for 

 four, five, or sometimes eight days, according to 

 the quantity in heap, the state of the weather, the 

 materials and weight of them with which the heap 

 is covered, &:c. &c. they are to lie taken up, and if 

 they are sufficiently sweated (which if the operation 

 is well done, will be the case in one fermentation) 

 the hanks are to be hung up (in close houses if pos- 

 sible) five or six inches nsnnder perpetidicularh/ from 

 nails driven into the rafters, collar braces, or from 

 ropes drawn across the ceiling, and brought near each 

 other : this mode of suspension will not take up one 

 third of the room that would be required if they 

 were stretched, as in the first process, horizontullif 

 from rafter to rafter, or pole to pole. A second 

 sweat, if the first be rightly done, is a waste of 

 weight without improvement, but in taking the heap 

 out of sweat some hanks will be found to have par- 



