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of thewalls, and cutting it accordingly 5 forhar we need: very little 
hew-ng,.: This ftone, as we cutitm the quarry, is no harder thanor- 
| dinary morter., “but-being fet-outom the weather , by: pieces as. we 
cut it; grows indifferently hard, and ts able!-to bear albrthe -weight 
‘that lyés onit , ‘and the longer it lyes, the harder it grows. Many 
effayes we made} whilft Iwag@here; for themaking: and -burning of 
bricks, ‘but never’could attain tothe perfection of it 5 and the reafon 
was,. the over fatne(softhe clay , which would alwayes crackle and 
break,° when it félethe gteat heat of the: firein.the Clampes and by 
tryalsy> There wasan ingenious few uponthel fland, whofename was 
| Solomon, that undertook to teach the making of: it 5 yet for all-that, 
| whenitcame'to thétouch hisiwifdom ‘failed , and we were deceived 
in owrexpéétation) Edoubtnot but there isa way of tempering, to 
| makevitefar better than ours 'in'Exgland 5 forthe pots which we findin 
thelfland, wherein the Indians boy!'d their Pork, were ofthe fame 
kind of Clay, and they*were the beft and, fineft temper'd ware of 
earth that ever I faws! “If we could find: thetrue temper of it, a great 
advantage dhightbelfiiide totheHlands forthe air being moift , the 
ftones often {weat, and by their moifture rot the timbers they touch, 
4 | whichicto:prevent we cover the ends of our beams: and girders with 
> : | boards; pitch’d orrboth: fides; : but the walls, being made of bricks, or 
‘et | butlin’d.with brick! would be much the: wWholefomer; and befides 
“| keepour wainlcot from rotting-tip Hangings we 
"ing poyl'd by Ants; and eaten.by the Cock , and R: 
Poh] ofthe Blauters that meant to handfom them houfes, were minded to} 
.. |fendfor gilt eather , and’ hang their rooms with that, which they ; 
. | were thore than per{waded thofe vermine would not eat , and inthat 
(oa | relolution left thea * “> forced 509 sstiegp aoe re! 
‘her | sloGarpenters, and Mafons, were newly Comeupon t sand fome 
| fuch as:could' draw a | 
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1es, and Rats, yet fome 
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ofithefe very great’ Maftersin their Art ::and 
aid! p Re the -defiga they framed’ with ‘great diligence, and. 
¢'5-Windows , and» Chiitineyspeecess, 
beautific the tops of their 
be.many,-for though the: Planters talk of building Houfes, and with 
them up, yerswhen they weigh the want ofthof hands in :theirfugar 
work, that muft be employed in'theit building , they fall back, and 
pas on their confidering caps. ‘Idrew out at leaft twenty p when 
bat two ofthenru’’d, one by Captain Midleton , and one by Captain 
Standfaft, and thofe were the two beft houfes , I left finift’d inthe 
unlef§ the houfebe fet on the fide ofa Hills for though the air be moift. 
above, yet I found itby experience much moilter under: ground ; fo 
grow. mouldy, ahd rotten ’s and if for coolnefs you think to keep any 
no iteans couldwefind the true:temper of it’) though we made often | 
very! prettily; but not many of thofe, nor isit needful thatthere fhould | 
Ilimd when Iéaineaway. ‘Cellais I would not make under ground, | 
that no moift thing can beYerthere , but it-wall:m a very fhort time} 
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came firft into the lands which they all ik’d well enough; and yet} . 
taw: fleth, it’ willimach fooner'taint there; than being hung up ima} — 
garret; where théSun continually thines upon. Nay the pipe-ftaves | — 
hoops, and heads of bartels, and hogfheads, will grow mouldy and rot | 
ten: Paveméntsand foundations of brickswould much helpthis with 
“TET were to build ahoufe formy’ felf in that place, I would have} — 
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