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with side pieces pinned on with an auger and wooden pins. 
The roof is secured by weighing it down with logs; so that 
neither hammer, nails, brick, or stone, is concerned in the 
structure; and locks and keys are very rarely deemed 
necessary. 
“The second kind of tobacco houses differ somewhat from 
these, with a view to longer duration. The logs are to this 
end more choicely selected. The foundation consists of four 
well hewn groundsels, of about eight by ten inches, leveled 
and Jaid upon cross sawed blocks of a larger tree, or upon 
large stones. The corners are truly measured, and squared 
diamond-wise, by which means they are more nicely notched 
in upon each other; the roof is fitted with rafters, footed 
upon wall plates, and covered with clap-boards nailed upon 
e rafters in the manner of slating. In all other respects 
this is the same with the last mentioned method; and. both 
are left open for the passage of the air between the logs. 
“The third kind is laid upon a foundation similar to the 
second; but instead of logs, the walls are composed of 
posts and studs, tenoned into the sells, and braced; the top 
of these are mounted with a wall-plate and joists; upon these 
come the rafters; and the whole is ne | with clap-boards 
and nails, so as to form one uninterrupted oblong square, 
with doors, etc., termed, as heretofore, a forty, sixty, or one 
hundred feet tobacco house, etc. 
“The fourth species of these differs from the third only in 
the covering, which is generally of good sawed feather-edged 
plank; in the roof, which is now composed of shingles; and 
in the doors and finishing, which consist of good sawed plank, 
hinged, &c. Sometimes this kirid are underpinned with a 
brick or stone wall beneath the groundsels; but they have no 
floors or windows, except a plank or two along the sides to 
raise upon hinges for sake of air, and occasional light : indeed, 
if these were constructed with sides similar to the brewery 
tops in London, I think it would be found advantageous. In 
respect to the inside framing of a tobacco house, one descrip- 
tion may-serve for every kind: they are so contrived as to 
admit poles in the nature of a scaffold through every part of 
them, ranging four feet from centre to centre, which is the 
length of the tobacco stick, as heretofore described ; and the 
lower ties should be so contrived as to renfove away occasion- 
ally, in order to pursue other employments at different stages 
in the process of curing the crop.” 
In Ohio, the tobacco barns are built in a manner similar to 
