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WOOD TRANSPORT BY LAND 



and allow the piece to fall into a side-bifurcation by which the 

 slide is continued. The piece of wood loses all its acquired 



. 198. Slide in N. Tyrol. 



velocity in this change of direction and then descends again, 

 until it meets with another brake. 



[The largest slide of this nature hitherto made in India is 

 the Bakani slide, near Chamba, in the Punjab. It is 12,f>;-W 

 feet long, with a vertical fall of l,(5f)0 feet, or an average 

 of 1:U per cent. It is formed of 4,000 deodar-logs of 



