4. The carrier carries the mould to the drying ground, where he adroitly turns it over, laying the bricks on the ground, and lifts up the mould.
5. When the bricks are dry, they carry them to a place where they row them up like a wall. They are covered with straw, till they are dry enough to be carried to the kiln.
6. Then they are stacked in the kiln, a fire kept till they are at the top red fire hot.
7. Then we let them cool, and sell them as we can for as much money as we can get, but usually about 13 or 14 shillings the thousand.
Similar methods may have been used at Jamestown during the seventeenth century.
Building A Small Brick House At Jamestown, About 1630
Conjectural sketch