I MILERS a name !riven to a mile erection of stones existing near St. Clare, Cornwall. Th.,y are of Druidical ol'i gill. Sre CELTIC A RCIIITECTURE.
Rill ES, in engineering, is sometimes applied. at New castle and other places, to the strong stages r wood erected on the sides of navigable rivers and harbonrs, to which the railways are cod ducted from the coal pits; by which means the load is emptied at once, by the help of a spout, from the v, into the of ships.
lit (from the Saxon hut/e) a small cottage or hovel.
It is also used for the soldiers' lodges in the field, otherwise called barrurks or CY ISerlig.
in rural economy, a low sort of of the cottage kind, generally construottd of earthy materials, as strong loamy clay, tke. A number of huts of this descrip tion have been built on the herders of the South Esk. in Scotland. which have a very neat and Taira] appearance. affirding the idea at a distance of their being fhrtned of a kind of brown hrick-work. The materials employed consist
a sort of muddy clay, blended with the roots of aquatic plants, which are beyond the flood-marl«ff the river. in such sizes and shapes as are suitable for the intended pnr. pose. The pieces. or peats, as they are called, are generally cut out in the form 1 II bricks, but somewhat larger, being prepared in every respect in the manner of peat•fnel. It is useful in some cases to build with lime-mortar, but more commonly ith clay only.
These Inns ale generally preferred by the cottagers to such as are built of stone, being warmer, and nearly as durable.
It seems not improbable hut that a similar sort of material fn huildin7 this kind of cottages may he met with in whiny situations where it has not I et been discovered, and he made use of in this way, as well as for various fences of the wall kind.