John Graves

“ They take care, that the Eggs be no hotter than the Eye of a man, when they are laid upon it, can well endure.
When the Chicken are hatch'd, they put them into the lower Ovens, which are covered with Mats. Under the Mats is Bran, to dry the Chicken: and upon the Mats, Straw, for the Chicken to stand upon.
The Ground-plot of the House and Ovens is delineated according to Fig. 1. a b A long entrance: on each side of which are fourteen Ovens (some places have more, some less.) The bottoms and sides of those Ovens which are on the ground, are all made of Sun-dry'd Bricks ”

“ The manner of Hatching Chicken at Cairo, observed by Mr. John Graves, sometime Professor of Astronomy at Oxford; and communicated by Sr. George Ent, late President of the College of Physitians, London. ”