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Show A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees. Chap.XXXT. rnove the courfeft, and groffeft of it , throwing the finer over the heap again, that fo it may neither cool too haftily , nor endanger the burning and reducing alk to dfhes, fhould the whole Pit be uncover'd: and expos'd to the Air at once 3 therefore they openit ; ! thus round by degrees, When now byallthe former Symptoms you judge it fully chared, you may begin to draw 5 that is, to take out the Coals, firft round the bottom, by which meansthe Coa/s, Rubbifh and Doft fink= ing and falling io together may choak , and extinguifh the frre. Your Coals fufficiently cool’d, with a very long-tooth'd Rake, anda Vann, you may load them into the Coal-Wains, which are made clofe with boards, purpofely tocarry them to Market : OF thefe Coals the grofler fort are commonly referv'd forthe Forges 5 and Iron-works ; the middling and fmoother put up in Sacks, and carried by the Colliers to London and the adjacent Towzs ; thofe which are char'dof the Roots, if pick'd out, areaccounted beft for Chymical fires, and where a lafting, and extraordinary b/a/? is requird. 4 Chap. XXXI. A Difcourfé of Foreft-Trees; great difh or fcoup, fo foon as ever they have thrown onall their Bavins, continually plying the great heap of glowing Coals, which gives a fudden {top tothe fury of the Fire, whiles with a great Rake they lay, and fpread it abroad, and ply their cafting of W2ter till on the Caals, which are now perpetually turn’d by two men with great Shovels , athird throwing onthe water : This they continue till no more Fire appears, though they ceafe not from being very hot : After this, they /2ovelthem up into great heaps , and when they are throughly ¢o/d,put them up in Sacks for London, where they ufe them amongft divers .Artificers 5 both to kindle greater Fires,and totemper., and aveal their feveral Works. 32. The beft Seafon for the fetching home of other Fxel, is from june 5 the Ways being then moft dry, and paflable, yet I know fome good Husbands willbegin rather ia Azzy 5 becaule Falowing and ftirring of Ground for Corz , comes in the enfuing Azonthes , aur the Dayes are long enough, and Swaines have then leaft to do, , 30, Coal for the Powder Mills is made of Alder wood ( but Lime-tree were much better had weit inthat plenty as we eafily might ) cat flackd, and fet on the Hearth like the former : But firft, ought the wood tobe wholly disbark'd ( which work isto be done about A4id:fummer before ) and being throughly dry, it may be Coaled in the fame method , the Heap or Pits onely fomewhat fmaller, by reafonthat they feldom coal abovefive, or fix flacks ata time, laying it but two lengths of the wood one above the other, in form fomewhat flatter on the top than what we have de- {cribed. Likewife do theyfling all their Rabbi/h and Dyf? on the top, and begin not to cover at the bottom , asin the former exe ample. Inlike fort, when they have drawn up the fre in RTIi ET aM the Tunnel, and ftopp’dit, they begin to draw down their duft by degrees round the heap 5 and this proportionably asit fires, till they come about to the bottom ; all which is difpatch’d in the fpace of two dayes. One of thefe Heaps will char threefcore Sacks of Coal, which may all be carried at one time ina Wag: gon; and fome makethe Court-coals after thefame manner. LattI , ati Smallecoals are made of the Spray, and Brufh-wood whichig thripped off from the branches of Copfe-wood, and which is fometimes bound up into Bavins for this ule ; though alfo it beas frequently chared without binding, and then theycall it cooméng it together : This, they place infome near floor , made level, and freed ofincumbrances, wherefetting one of the Bavins or part of the jpray onfire, women{tand ready to throw on Bavin upon Bavin (asfaftas they can take fire, which makes a very great and fuddenblaze) till they have burnt all that lyes near the place, to the number (it may be ) offive, orfix hundred Bavins: But erethey begintofet fire, theyfillgreat Tubs or Vefels with water, which ftand ready by them, and this they dafh on with a great b The Central Pole or place of the Tunnel with the Area mak} ing ready. a The Woodplac’d about it in Triangle. ce The Coal Wood pil'd up before it be covered with Earth, d The Coal-pit er Pile fir'd. 33. And |