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Brick- Making, 
tended clamp somewliat higher than the surrounding 
ground : and with place bricks, if they have any unsold, 
or otherwise with the driest of those just made, makes a 
foundation of an oblong form, beginning with the flue, 
which is nearly a brick wide, and running straight through 
the clamp. In this flue dry bavins, coals, and cinders 
(vulgarly called breese) are laid and pressed in close, in 
order that the interstices between wood and coal may 
be properly filled up. On the sides of the flue the 
bricks are placed diagonally about one inch asunder, and 
between each layer of bricks three or four inches of breese 
are strewed, and in this manner they builS tier upon tier 
as high as the clamp is meant to be ; never omitting be- 
tween each layer, as well as between each brick, that is 
placed diagonally, to put a due portion of breese. When 
they have made the clamp about six feet long, another 
flue is made similar in every respect to the preceding, to 
the extent of the size of the intended clamp ; provided 
only that the bricks are meant to be burnt off quick, 
which they will be in about twenty-one or thirty days, 
according as the weather may suit. But if there is no 
immediate hurry for the bricks, the flues are placed at 
about nine feet asunder, and the clamp left to burn oiF 
slowly. When fire is set to the clamp, and it burns well 
(the ash-hole being placed at the west end generally) the 
mouths are stopped with brick, and clay laid against 
them ; the outsides of the clamps are plastered with clay 
if the weather is at all precarious, of the fire burns furi- 
ously ; and to the end against which addition is made to | 
about six feet high, and sufficiently wide to be moved 
about with ease, are placed to keep off* the weather, and 
against any particular side where wet is most prevalent. 
On the top of the clamp a thick layer of breese is uniform * 
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