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Reed-hook. See Sley-hook.
Reel, triple, 200.
See Clock-reel and Niddy-noddy.
Revolution, influences towards success, 166-167, 189.
Rhode Island, stage-coach in, 346.
Rhode Island College. See Brown University.
Ribbon-beds, 445.
Ribbon-gra.s.s, 430.
Ride-and-tie system, 332.
Rings, wearing of, 297; at funerals, 298.
Rippling of flax, 168-169; of hemp, 169.
Rippling-comb, 168; of Egyptians, 178.
Roasting ears, 134.
Roasting-kitchens, 65.
Rock for spinning, in Egypt, 178; in India, 178; in New England, 179.
Rock-candy, 157.
Rocking-tree, of loom, 220.
Rochester, house-raising at, 410.
Rolliches, 154.
Rolling-roads, 330.
Rolling-up a house, 6.
Roof, of Dutch houses, 10; gambrel, 22.
Roquelaure, 295.
Rosselini, quoted, 178.
Roving, of yarn, 201.
Rowley, spinning match at, 184.
Ruffler for flax, 172.
Rum, manufacture of, 163; in New England, 163; in slave-trade, 163-164; at house-raisings, 410.
Rush, for scouring, 85.
Rushlight, 38.
Rutland, cave-dwellers in, 3.
Sabba-day house. See Noon-house.
Sabin Hall, 14.
Sack, law of sale, 357.
Sacjes, 386-387.
Saco, communal privileges in, 390.
Safeguards, 295.
Salem, coloring houses at, 23; lobsters at, 117; fisheries at, 121; milk in, 148; sumptuary laws in, 283; taverns at, 356-357; night-watch in, 363; meeting-house in, 364; seats for boys at meeting in, 372; swineherds in, 403.
Saler, 78.
Salisbury, meeting-house at, 369.
Salmon, price in Boston, 123; low regard of, 123; fis.h.i.+ng for, 124.
Salt-cellar, 78-79.
Salting of fish, 124; of meat, 153.
Samp, mode of preparing, 131-132, 134; porridge of, 134.
Samplers, 265-268.
Samp-mills, 133.
Samp-mortars, 133.
Sap-buckets, 112.
Sap-yoke, 113.
Sa.s.safras, as dye, 194; for soap, 255.
