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ninety pints, or five pecks and ten pints; confe- 

 quently, in thethoufands of loads confumed in this 

 metropolis, there is a very great lofs to the com- 

 munity; but the number is beyond my power 

 to afcertain. W. W. 



Defcription of the Mill. 



It requires very little pradlice to enable any per- 

 fon to manage the mill. The dart painted on the 

 fly direds which way to turn the handle, it being 

 pointed as it fhould be turned. The hopper, which 

 ferves to feed the mill, is regulated by the two round 

 pins, to which the cords are fixed. The fcrew at 

 the bottom of the frame is to adjuft the diftance of 

 the inner nutt from the outward cone; for if it be 

 fcrewed upwards too much, it will bruife the grain ; 

 if lowered down too far, it will admit the cars to 

 pafs without effcdl. The crofs bars, that fupport 

 the axis on which the fly and pinion are fixed, are 

 moveable upward and downward as occalion re- 

 quires. When the fcrew at bottom is turned to 

 the right, it moves the nutt upward, and gives lefs 

 fpace. The wedges muft be flackcned above, to 

 admit the axle to rife upward or downward as may 

 be found necefTary. Thcfe wedges may be flackencd 

 or tightened with great cafe, anc} without any dan- 

 ger of injuring the mill. 



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