This Lime with them is as soft as Butter.
[Their Manufactures.] Their Manufactures are few: some Callicoes, not so fine as good strong Cloth for their own use: all manner of Iron Tools for Smiths, and Carpenters, and Husbandmen: all sorts of earthen ware to boil, stew, fry and fetch water in, Goldsmith's work, Painter's Work, carved work, making Steel, and good Guns, and the like.
But their Art in ordering the Iron-Stone and making Iron, may deserve to be a little insisted on.

For the Countrey affords plenty of Iron, which they make of Stones, that are in several places of the Land; they lay not very deep in the ground, it may be, about four or five or six foot deep.
[How they make Iron.] First, They take these Stones, and lay them in an heap, and burn them with wood, which makes them more soft and fitter for the Furnace.

When they have so done they have a kind of Furnace, made with a white sort of Clay, wherein they put a quantity of Charcoal, and then these Stones on them, and on the top more Charcoal.

There is a back to the Furnace, like as there is to a Smith's Forge, behind which the man stands that blows, the use of which back is to keep the heat of the fire from him.

Behind the Furnace they have two logs of Wood placed fast in the ground, hollow at the top, like two pots.