about eight by ten inches, leveled
and laid upon cross sawed blocks of a larger tree, or upon
large stones. The corners are truly measured, and squared
diamond-wise, by which means they are more nicely notched in
upon each other; the roof is fitted with rafters, footed
upon wall plates, and covered with clap-boards nailed upon
the rafters in the manner of slating. In all other respects
this is the same with the last mentioned method; and both
are left open for the passage of the air between the logs.

"The third kind is laid upon a foundation similar to the
second; but instead of logs, the walls are composed of posts
and studs, tenoned into the sells, and braced; the top of
these are mounted with a wall-plate and joists; upon these
come the rafters; and the whole is covered with clap-boards
and nails, so as to form one uninterrupted oblong square,
with doors, etc., termed, as heretofore, a forty, sixty, or
one hundred feet tobacco house, etc.

"The fourth species of these differs from the third only in
the covering, which is generally of good sawed feather-edged
plank; in the roof, which is now composed of shingles; and
in the doors and finishing, which consist of good sawed
plank, hinged, &c. Sometimes this kind are underpinned with
a brick or stone wall beneath the groundsels; but they have
no floors or windows, except a plank or two along the sides
to raise upon hinges for sake of air, and occasional light:
indeed, if these were constructed with sides similar to the
brewery tops in London, I think it would be found
advantageous. In respect to the inside framing of a tobacco
house, one description may serve for every kind: they are so
contrived as to admit poles in the nature of a scaffold
through every part of them, ranging four feet from centre to
centre, which is the length of the tobacco stick, as
heretofore described; and the lower ties should be so
contrived as to remove away occasionally, in order to pursue
other employments at different stages in the process of
curing the crop."

In Ohio, the tobacco barns are built in a manner similar to those in
Virginia; constructed of logs and provided with trenches for fires in
curing the tobacco. The tobacco sheds for hanging the tobacco cured by
air-drying, are built of the same material with