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BoonIIhof two,or three Foot Distance, quite round whhin a Foot (or therc-about) of the Top, though so me ; begin them at the Bottom;. A I)ay af-ter begin another Row of Holes a. Foot and half beneath the former,*and so .more, till they arrive to the Ground, as Occasion requires. Note,that as the ‘Pit does coal and Jink towards thc ( Centre, it is continually:to be fed with short and fitting Woody that, ,no,Part remain, u^sjred; and;if it chars faster at one Part thaq at another, there close r up} ( (he Veufa.holesy and open them where need is: ,A Pit will. in this manp^r f beburnr,ing off and charing „ five or six Days,, and as,it coals-, the- Smoak frQU\t hi eh.,and gross Clouds, will gro\y more blue, and Iivid, f gnd ; the whole*Mass sink accordingly.; so as -by. these Indications you n>ay the. better;know how to stop and govern your Spiracles^ Two or three Days, itwilf oply require for coolings which (the Vmts~ being stqpped) theyastist, .by taking now off the outward Covering with. a Rabifoxflubbevybut tins, not fa.r above the Space jof one Tard .Breadth atua .sfime ; andfirst they remove the coarsest and grossest of !t, throwing the finer overthe Heap again*, sq it may neither cool too hastily,, no? endangerthe burning and .reducing all \A-Ashes, should the whole. 'Fit be ufiqcovered and exposed to the Air. At once ; therefore they open it thusround by Degrees, Vo f [ - t ,..

When now hy al) (he former Symptoms you judge it. fully char Jyou may begin to draw j that is, to take out the Coals, first found ,tjjr&Bottom; by which.Means the Coals, Rubbijh and c DuJi sinking and fal-ling in together, may choak and extinguish the Fire. j

Tour Coals sufficiently cooled , with a very long-toothed Rake, and. aV.ayn,, you. may Iqad them, into the Coal-wains , which are.made closywith Boards, purposely to carry them to Market Of these Coals thegroMn Sort are commonly reserved for the Forges and ■ Iron-works ,the,nupdiing and, smoother put up in Sacks , and carried by the. Collie Ato Foifdou, .and the adjacent Towns-, those whish are char'd of theRoots , if picked out, are accounted best for chymical Fires , and wherea lasting,and extraordinary Blajl is required*

^o.^.Qoal foxPowder-Mills h made of Alder-wood (but Lime-treepy^te much better?had we it in that Plenty as we . easily might)cut,' flack’d and set on the Hearth like the former : But first oughtthe Wood .to be wholly disbarked (which Work is to be done aboutMidsummer before) and being thoroughly dry, it may be paled in theiamy Method, the Heap or Pile only somewhat smaller, by reasonthat they seldom coal above five or six Stacks at a Time, laying it buttw&yjengths of.the Wood one above the other, in Form somewhat flat-ter on.the.Top, than what we have described. Likewise do they fling alltheir RubbifhAvA ‘Dust on the Top, and begin not to cover at the Bot-tom, as in the former Example. In like fort, when they have drawnup the Fire in the Funnel, and" stopped it, they begin to draw downxhen^fDujl by Degrees round the Heap; and this proportionablj as ltfires , ,till they come about to the Bottom $ all which is dispatched in thespace of two Days. One of these Heaps will char threesoore SacksCoal, which may .gil be carried at one Time in a Waggon ; and s° memake the Court-coals after the same manner. Lastly, /

H.fimall-coals are made ( of the Spray and Brujh-wood, which tsstfripped off from the Branches of tCopse-wood, and which is sometimesbound up into Bavins for this Use; though also it be as frequentlychar’d without binding, and then they call tt cooming it together : This*they place in some near Floor , made level, and steed of Incumbrances,

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