





_ Lheir Language — 149 
the Wall, clofe to the Side-piece, and near 
the Place of their Entrance, but diicovered 
nothing of them, neither gained: the leat 
Intelligence. 
‘The next Day (being Friday) I fent fit 
a Plaifterer, fuppofing they had concealed 
themfelves ander the Slates, and met with 
an agreeable Place of RG ee he removed 
a confiderable Number of the Slates, but 
“with*no Succefs at all; there was nothing 
to be feen or heard of them. Both the 
Breaches were immediately repaired and 
made good. 
They were not in the Wall, nor were 
they under the Slates and within the Cieling ; 
therefore, in all Probability, they had found 
a ‘Paflage into the Funnel of the Chimney, 
and had chofe that for their Habitation, of 
which I intended to make Trial the next 
Day; when having collected a large Quan- 
tity ‘of combuftible Matter, fit for fuch a 
 Parpofe, I fet it on fire, whi prefentl 
Brought them to Light. No fooner did the 
Smoke begin to fill the Chimney, but firft 
we heard a ftrange Uproar and Confufion} 
and prefently confiderable Numbers came 
‘down into the Room, thro’ the Fire and 
‘the Smoke, and fome perithed therein, and 
the reft were let out at the Window, but the 
main Body efcaped thro’ the old Paffage, 
fettling on the outfide Wail, whence we 
got them with fome Difficulty into an Hive 
pari that 
