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before] \ Within 2, For which reafon. you are compell’d-to take fuch remedies, 
the Sun and houle, as to keep it continually inthe thade; and to have 
| that fhade at fuch;a diftance:; as:very. little heatthall be fele in any 
}time ofthe day ; or fhades that|are made. by. the higheft trees, are | 
andoybtedly..the: cooleft and frefhelt,/by reafon it keeps. the heat | 
farthelt, off, Befides-this, there are, many, advantages, to, be made, 
inthe contrivance.of the houfd, 5, fort fee thé Planters there, never 
| i confider vvhichivvay they: build their houfes »fo they, get them up 
-vvhich isthe caufe.that many, of them, are fo-infufferably hot, as nei- 
ft ther themfelves. ner. any other.can remain in them, vvithout fvvel-| 
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= Fait then; vve-vvill confider vvhat the errours are in their contri- 
-vanees, that vve may. be the better able to fhevv the beft vvay tomend 
them; A fingle houfe. that is,built long-vvife, and upona Northand 
| South Jine,has thefe, difadvantages:. the Sun dhines upon the Eaftfide- 
| -wyalls from fixa clocktill| eight; fo as the beams reft flat upon that fide, 
for tvvo-hours,; And the|beams refting'upon a flat or oblique line (as 
) that is,) gives a greater heat then upon a diagonal,vvhich glaunces 
the beams afide,, As’a tenmisballi, {trook :againft the fide wallsof the 
Court, glauncing, hits, with lefs force then,when itfeels the full refi- 
{tance of the ¢nd wall, where. ‘tis met.with aflat oblique:line: So the | 
Sun beams, the more direétly' they are oppos'd by any flat body, the 
jmore violently they burne, ‘This fide-wall bemg warm’d; the Sun 
| gets higher,and'{hines hotter, and thenthe rafters become the oblique 
‘lane, which is thinner,and lefs able to refift the beams 3 and the cove- 
co being fhingles, receives the heat quicker, and retains'it longer, | 
thantiles would do, fo that for the whole forenoon, that fide of the | » 
roofe, receives as much heat, as the Sun can give, and (0 pafles over 
to the other fide; giving it {9 much the more inthe afternoon , as is | 
_ |uncreaft by warming the houlc and Aire all the morning before, and fo 
= Oven being heat on both fides, what can you expect, but that ae | 
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