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inerous progeny; or for magazines, which are always fctund 
well filled with {lores and provifioiis. 
I lli-all forbear at this time entering into a very minute 
account of the infide Of thefe wonderful buildings, as the bare 
recital might appear tedious; though I fiatffer myfelf, that 
when I have an opportunity of communicating it to the publick 
.at large, the readers will follow me through an exadt defcrip- 
tion of them with pleafiire. 
Thefe hills make their firft appearance above -ground by a 
little turret or two in the Ihape of fugar loaves, which are run 
-a foot high or more ("h Soon after, at Tome little diftance, 
while the former are increafing in height and fize, they raife 
others, and fo go on increafing the number and' widening them 
at the hafe, till their works below hr'e covered with thefe 
turrets, which they always raife the higheft and largeft in the 
middle, and by filling up the intervals, between each turret, 
colled them as it were into one dome. 
They are not very curious or exact about thefe turrets, ex- 
cept in making them very folid and ftrdng, and when by the 
junction of them the dome is compleated, for which purpofe 
the turrets anfwer as lcatfolds, they take away the middle ones 
entirely, except the tops (which joined together make the 
crown of the cupola) and apply the clay to the buildingof the 
works within, or tb eroding frefh turrets Tor file purpofe <jf 
raifing the hillock ftill higher ; To that ho doubt Tonie part of 
the clay- is ufed feveral times, like the boards and polls of a 
roafon’s Tcaffibld. 
(»*) Some of thefe turrets are reprefehted in thevfew of their Mills, (tab.- 
VII. fig- 3 % I have feea turrets 6a the fides of thefe Bells four or five feet 
high (tab. V-Hcfig, i. a. a. a.). When 
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