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When the Chicken are batch'd, they put them inio the 
lower Ovens which are covered with Mats. Under the Mars 
is Bran, to dry che Chicken : and upon the Mats,$craw, for the 
Chicken to ftand upon* 
The Ground* plot of theHoufeand Ovenlis delifieated ac- 
cotding to Fig* A long entrance : on each fide of which 
are fourteen Ovens (fonie places ha\e more, fonie k£s.) The 
bottoms and fid^s of thofe Ovens which are on the ground, are 
all made of Sun-dry 'd Bricks ; upon which they put Mats, 
and on the Mats the Eggs. 
Tfeetop of thefe Ovens are flat , and covered With fticks, 
except two long Spaces which are msde of S^n-dry'd Bricks ^ 
and are the Hearths above-mentioned, in which the fires are 
made, to heat the Eggs lyiog under ihcm 'm the lower Oveos. 
Above thefe lower Ovens are fo manyoiher, made of Sun> 
dry'd Bricks , and arched at the ^op^ Where alfo there are 
fome holes, which are ftop'd with Tow, Sec* or left open, as 
they pieafe to govern the heat in the Ovens below\ 
The Plant of the upper Oven is according to Fig. 2. 
4 The Mouth of the Oven, opening upon the long entrance 
^ above mentioned:, 
I? and € Entrances into the Ovens adjoynihg. 
d € Two Hearths three or four Inches deep > in which they 
make the fire, to heat this and the Oven belo w. 
The depth of the lower Oven is about 2^ fooc E^ghjh. The 
ftcond, above four, 
A RtUtion concerning B^rmcles ^ by Sr. Robert Moray, ItUe^ 
one of his Majefiies Council for ike Kingdomof Scotland. 
IN the Weftern Jflands of Scotland much of the Timber^, 
wherewith the Common people build their Houfes, is fuch 
as the Weft- Ocean throws upon their Shores. The moft ordi- 
nary Trees are Firr and Jlh* They are ufually very large, and 
without branches 5 which feem rather to have been broken or 
worn off, than cut : and are fo Weather-beaten , that there is 
no Bark left upon them, cfpecially the P/m. Being in the 
Iflandof Fafl, \ faw lying upon the filore a cue of a large 
Firr tree of about 2 \ foot diameter , and 9 or i$> foot long ; 
which had Iain fo long out of rhewarer, that it was very dry : 
And moft of the Shells, that had formerly covei'd it, were 
worn 
