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112 X)hfcrval'wns upon the art o/* 



convenient heigkt from the ground, care being takfen to place 

 a double board under every fland to prevent their fettling. 

 The frame is commonly formed of pine, hemlock or other 

 joift. The largell or fide timbers being 4 by 5 inches, and the 

 middle ones 3 by 4. The floor is made of good feafoned 

 boards, nailed upon this frame. A piece of plank, about fix 

 inches in width, is placed upon its t^go. on the top of the outfide 

 timber, reding upon the ends of the floor boards, and firmly 

 fecured by upright pieces, trundled on the outfide, at proper 

 diftances from each other, in the form of dovetail ; but an 

 improvement in this method is, that the gunwale plank fhould 

 ftipply die place of the fide timber, having a groove within 



one inch of its lower ed":e> itLta xirhldL-the ends of the floor 



boards are inferted. . This building muft be divided by plank 

 partitions into three apartments ; the water room being the 



largefl, mull occupy two thirds of the whole ; the pickle 

 room takes up two thirds of the remainder, and the refidue is 



afTigned for the fait room. 



The two laH rooms m.uft fall each a few inches below the 



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one immediately preceding, for the convenience of drawing 

 off the liqwor. 



It is a point of importance, that the floor of the fait room 

 in particular, be perfeiflly tight ; to this end, none but the befl 



of feafoned boards, planed on one fide, and entirely clear of 

 fap, and loofe knots fhould he ufed. The joints, efpecially 



imder the gunwale, fhould be caulked and payed. The cov- 



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