From June, with one brick and two tile stools he has been tasked to make 40000 bricks and tiles monthly (as many of each sort as may be), having twenty-two men and two boys to assist him, on the same terms of procuring materials as before.

They fetch the clay of which tiles are made, two hundred yards; that for bricks is close at hand.

He says that the bricks are such as would be called in England, moderately good, and he judges they would have fetched about 24 shillings per thousand at Kingston-upon-Thames (where he resided) in the year 1784.

Their greatest fault is being too brittle.

The tiles he thinks not so good as those made about London.
The stuff has a rotten quality, and besides wants the advantage of being ground, in lieu of which they tread it.
King (another master bricklayer) last year, with the assistance of sixteen men and two boys, made 11,000 bricks weekly, with two stools.