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a fuffident quantity in the winter for the fupply of the ta- 
ble during the fummer feafon. The methods he purfued 
were as follows : on a large open plain, three or four ex- 
cavations were made, each about thirty feet fquare and 
two deep ; the bottoms of which were If rewed about eight 
inches or a foot thick with fugar-cane, or the Ifems of the 
large Indian corn dried. Upon this bed were placed in 
rows, near to each other, a number of fmall, Ihallow, 
earthen pans, for containing the water mtended to be 
frozen. Thefe are unglazed, fcarce a quarter of an inch 
thick, about an inch and a quarter in depth, and made of 
an earth fo porous, that it was vifible, from the exterior 
part of the pans, the water had penetrated the whole fub- 
Ilance. Towards the dufk of the evening, they were 
filled with foft water, which had been boiled, and then, 
left in the afore-related fituation. The ice-makers at- 
tended the pits ufually before the Sun was above the ho- 
rizon, and collected in balkets what was frozen, by pour- 
ing the whole contents of the pans into them, and there- 
by retaining the ice, which was daily conveyed to the 
grand receptacle or place of prefervation, prepared ge- 
nerally on fome high dry fituation, by finking a pit of 
fourteen or fifteen feet deep, lined firfi: with Ifraw, and 
then with a. coarfe kind of blanketing, where it is beat 
down with rammers, till at length its own accumulated 
cold again freezes and forms one folid mafs. The mouth 
of the pit is well fecured from the exterior air with fir aw 
and blankets, in the manner of the lining, and a thatched 
yoof is thrown over the whole.. It is here neceffary to 
remark, 
