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for all this , when you muft be fcorch't up from morning till night 

 with the torrid heat of the Sun 5 So as in that twelve hours, you 

 hardly can find two , in which you can enjoy your felf with content- 

 ment. Or how can you expert to find heat , or warmth in your fto- 

 mack, to digeft that meat, when the Sun hath exhaufted your heat 

 i and fpirits fo to your outer parts , as you are chill'd and numb'd 

 j within ? For which reafon you are compell'd to take fuch remedies, 

 I as are almoft as ill as the difeale 5 liquors fb ftrong , as to take a- 

 way the breath as it goes down, and red pepper for (pice , which 

 wants little of the heat ofa fire-coalej and all thele will hardly draw 

 in the heat, which the Sun draws out, and part of this deficiency 

 1 is occafioned by the improvidence , or inconfideration of the Inha- 

 1 bitants, who build their dvvellings,rather like ftoves then houfes, for 

 j the moft ofthem are made oftimber, low rooft keeping out the wind, 



I letting in the Sun, when they have means to have it othervvile 5 for 



I I will undertake to contrive a houle lb , as no one fhall have juft 

 caufe to complain of any exceffive heat 5 and that which gives this 

 great remedy , {hall bring with it the greateft beauty that can be 

 look't on. The Palmetoes , which being plac't (as I will give you 

 direftions in my plot) in convenient order, (hall interpofe fo between 

 the" Sun and houfe , as to keep it continually in the fhade^ and to have 

 that fhade at fuch a diftance , as very little heat fhall be felt in any 

 time of the day : For (hades that are made by the high eft: trees, are 

 undoubtedly the cooleft , and frefticft, by reafon it keeps the heat 

 farthcft off. Befides this, there are. many advantages to be made, 

 in the contrivance of the houfe 5 for I fee the Planters there, never 

 confider which way they build their houfes:i fo they get them up, 

 which is thecaule thatmany of them, are fo infiifFerably hot, as nei- 

 ther themfelves nor any other can remain in them without fwcl- 

 tring. 



Firft then^we will confider what the errours are in their contri- 

 vances, that we may be the better able to fhew the beft way to mend 

 them 5 A fingle houfe that is built long-wife, and upon a North and 

 South line,has thefe difadvantages : the Sun fhines upon the Eaftfide- 

 [ walls from fix a clock till eight, fo as the beams reft flat upon that fide, 

 for two hours. And the beams reftingupon aflat or oblique line (as 

 that is,) gives a greater heat then upon a diagonal, which glaunces 

 the beams afide. As a tennis ball, ftrook againllcthe fide walls of the 

 Court, glauncing, hits with lefs force then when it feels the full refi- 

 ftance of the end w^all, where 'tis met with aflat oblique line : So the 

 Sun beams, the more direftly they are opposed by any flat body, the 

 more violently they burne. This fide-wall being warm'd , the Sun 

 gets higher,and fhines hotter, and then the rafters become the oblique 

 line, which is thinner,and lefs abletorefift the beams 5 and the cove- 

 ring being fhingles, receives the heat quicker , and retains it longer, 

 than tiles would do, fo that for the whole forenoon, that fide of the 

 roofe, receives as much heat , as the Sun can give, and fopaffesover 

 to the other fide, giving it fo much the more in the afternoon , as is 

 increaft by warming the houfe and Aire all the morning before, and fo 

 the Oven being heat on both fides,what can you expeS,but that thofe 



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