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whins are good, one man, with an old horfe not 

 worth rr.ore than twenty or thirty fhillings, may 

 bruife as many whins as would keep forty head of 

 beads conftantly eating that were fed on nothing 

 elfe. This is independent of cutting and bringing 

 home the whins, which in many cafes will coft more 

 upon the whole than the bruifing. 



Xhc machine is fo fimple in all its parts, as to be 

 readily underftood by infpe6tion only. It confifts 

 of a large circular ftone fet on its edge (the weightier 

 and bigger the better) with a wooden axis pafTing 

 through its centre. One end of this axis is fixed 

 upon a pivot placed in the centre of a circular area, 

 and to the other end of it is fixed a yoke, to which 

 the horfe that is to move it is attached. The ftonc 

 being placed on its edge, when the horfe moves, 

 it revolves round its axis in a circular groove, or 

 ftone trough, (this trough fliould be made of hewn 

 ftone) exadly in the fame manner as a fugar- 

 baker's or a tanner's mill. The whins being placed 

 in this trough are bruifcd by the weight of the 

 ftone as it pafTes over them, and being railed up 

 by a three-pronged fork by the attendant, after they 

 have been well flatted down, they rife in a (brt of 

 matted cake, which, being fet in fbme meafurc 

 upon its edge, is again fmalhed down by the 

 wheel as it revolves around. In this way the ope- 



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