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<kns; and the people seemingly more comfortable than 

 common in Norfolk. 



Mr. Drake, of Billingfold, near Scole, washes a fine 

 white clav from a mixed soil, in order to make white 

 bricks — lumps, as they are called — for barn-floors, <kc. 

 He has a boarded cistern, into which the earth is put, 

 and water ladled or pumped from a contiguous pond : the 

 earth is well stirred, and the sand, stones, &(:, sinking, the 

 suspended clay is let ofF into a broad shallow tank, and as 

 soon as it is subsided, the water is let oiF into the same 

 pond. But the clay thus gained is too strong to make 

 brick alone— ^7;/^ in the fire ; it is therefore mixed with 

 a yellowish loam. 



At TheltorL, to dig, turn over, water, make, and 

 burn bricks, 9s. per rooo : every tiling, as tables, boards, 

 sand-barrows, &:c. tound. Some give lOs, 6d. 



Building a tolerable cottage at Hiliingdon, costs 50!, 

 60I. and to Sol. ; yet lime is burnt for 4d. a bushel ; but 

 it is bad, and the mortar decays. 



An observation Mr. Maitland made, in shewing 

 me a sluice in Governor Bfc:NTiNcj>;'s embankment, me- 

 rits noting. By the flooring ot the ar<ii being laid against 

 the brick-work without due precaution, the water got 

 through, and boiled up under the apron ; he laid it afresh 

 in Roman cement, stof)t the water, and the evil ceased. 



C J. COTTAGliS. 



