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the slide at which the downward section begins, and the log, 

 after striking against the barrier, rolls into the lower section 

 (m, n), and continues its descent as shown in Fig. 205. 



[A similar turning was effected in a fuel sledge-road near 

 Chakrata, N. W. Himalayas, by using a large cart-wheel 

 set on a pivot as a turn-table, on which the direction of the 

 sledges was changed. Fig. 206, show a Japanese method 

 of changing direction in a slide. Tr.] 



The upper end of a slide is generally somewhere near the 

 felling-area. Its lower end should lead to a plot of land 

 sufficiently spacious for the material brought down to be 

 collected and sorted. In order to manage this better the 



Fig. 205. Change of direction in n, slide. 



slide may be divided below into several branches. In any 

 case, it should terminate above a cart-road or stream used 

 for floating. 



Once the logs which are to be transported are brought by 

 any means whatever to the head of the slide, they are used to 

 fix its sides, commencing at the top ; being placed along the 

 outer sides, or on both sides, of the roadway, supported by 

 pegs either through the logs or outside them, and at such a 

 distance apart as to allow for the easy passage of a sliding log 

 between them (Fig. 204). In order to prevent descending 

 logs from jamming, the distance apart of the boundary logs 

 should be greater on curves than on straight sections of the 

 slide, or the inner side of the slide may be left free. On the 

 outside of curves it may also bo necessary to put two or three 



