22 IMPROVEMENTS IN CANADA. 



erected across cliinery, great power and rapid motion proceeding from 

 what is commonly called a dash wheel, erected across a 

 stream of rapid water, the flies or float boards of which are 

 fixed in the octangular axis, from fifteen to twenty-five 

 feet in length, and from three and a half in depth, each 

 fly. I have seen many corn mills in Upper Canada, with 

 no other water wheels than such as the above described, 

 which save a vast expense in raising dams, &c. 



? Ve Pf Ca p U " There area number of streams in that part of Canada, 



nada. which I have endeavoured to describe, (as to the practica- 



bility of the various ways of cultivation) that are well cal- 

 culated for such wheels; and where these streams or rivers 

 are not too wide, the axis of the wheel might be extended 

 across so as to reach the land on each side, where I propose 

 the breakers to be fixed to go by a tilt the same as a forge 

 hammer. Such a simple piece of machinery would not cost 

 more than 70 or 80 dollars, as little iron would be wanted, 

 and timber we have for nothing; and when in motion would 

 employ four breakers and two servers, from whom I should 

 expect as much good work as fifteen or sixteen persons 

 could possibly do in the old way, and that without much 

 bodily labour. 



Mills for break- Mills for breaking hemp, on the very same principle as 



mg iemp, ^ at ^ a gaw m \]\ 9 < dS to motion only an addition of an iron 

 crank, so as to run with two cranks instead of one, with 

 something of a larger sweep than that of a saw mill, would 

 be of vast utility in a neighbourhood of a large* growth of 

 hemp, and would not cost more than a common saw mill. 

 As the brakes of the frame continue in motion the same 

 as that of a saw mill, twenty men might be employed, who 

 would do as much as fifty or sixty could do in the old way, and 

 ' with much more ease and pleasure to themselves; and this 



Some collateral is not the only advantage that would result from such mills ; 



advantages. j t would cause something of a social meeting, which the 

 youth would Jbe particularly fond of. At such meetings all 

 the defects respecting the culture and management of hemp 

 would be examined into, and those who raised the best 

 would become ambitious, and try to excel each other; thus 

 we might reasonably expect, that Upper Canada would-far 



exceed 



