 Into these grooves were fitted the two ends of
the eight-feet slabs we had split with the maul and wedges...The flooringboards... were six inches wide and one [inch] thick; timber being used so green, and the heat being so great, boards
of any greater width turn up at the edges, so as in time to look like a row
of spouts.The rooms were all joisted at top, and on the joists was spread
a floor of bark, so as to form, over the whole top of the house, the
settler's usual first rude granary.