130 Coffee Planting. 



person following with the first contrivance, and 

 looking through the small orifice of the tube, shall 

 find the horizontal wire (at the end furthest from 

 the eye) exactly bisecting the cross-piece held 

 before him. A picket must then be put in, and 

 the advanced pole moved on to another station, the 

 tracer being moved up to its previous place, and so 

 on da capo. 



A man should now follow with small pegs, six 

 inches in length, and drive one into the ground up 

 to the head close to each picket, in order that when 

 the road is dug out of the bank or slope above, the 

 correct level may be arrived at ; the earth thus 

 excavated being banked up below or outside the 

 peg, so as to give additional width of road-way. 



When a road is being made through a clearing, 

 it will be advisable to send a gang of men with 

 axes, cross-cut saws, and strong bars and levers, one 

 or two days in advance, to cut through and remove 

 the prostrate timber and stumps ; the gang with 

 mammoties, pick-axes, &c., following to dispose of 

 the earth-work. 



A cutting of four feet in the solid (which, with 

 the banked-up earth-work, should give a roadway 

 of some six feet or more in width) will, if made by 

 the estate hands, cost some 10 or 12 per mile, 

 exclusive of blasting, or anything extensive in the 

 way of building up, bridges, &c. 



