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A HORSE is ufed to draw the empty waggon back again to 

 the pit from the ftaith by an eafy afcent along another fimilar 

 waggon-way, laid along the fide of the former at about three 

 feet diftance : thus it is fo contrived that the loaden and empty 

 waggons never meet or interfere with each other. 



The ftaith is a large wooden building on the weft fide of the 

 town adjoining to the habour and covered in. In this ftaith 

 are fixed five hurries or fpouts, at fuch a diftance from each 

 other that a fliip of three hundred tons burthen can lie under 

 each hurry and receive a loading at one time. The ftaith is 

 about thirty-feven feet above the level of the quay, and when 

 the waggons arrive there the bottom of each waggon is drawn 

 out and the coals are dropped from thence into the hurry or 

 fpout under it, through which they run down into the fiiip laid 

 below to receive her loading. The hurries or fpouts lie with 

 an inclining flope of about forty-five degrees. 



When there are no Ihips ready to receive coals they are de- 

 pofited in the ftaith, which will contain about fix thoufand 

 tons, Dublin meafure, or three thoufand waggon loads. Thefe 

 coals thus depofited are once more put into waggons and 

 dropped through the hurries or fpouts into ftiips, when there 

 are more vefi"els than the ufual daily fupply of coals will load. 

 There have been two hundred waggon loads, or four hundred 

 Dublin tons, fliipped from the pits in one day, and an equal 

 quantity on the fame day from the ftaith, making in the whole 

 about eight hundred tons, Dublin meafure. 



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