PART HI.} MORRIS BTRKBECK, ESQ. 585 



larly if it should be of any use in the Prairies ; 

 for, God knows, you will have plague enough 

 without sending to mill, which is, of itself, no 

 small plague even in a Christian country. 

 About the same strength that turns a threshing 

 machine, turned my mill. I can give no in 

 formation about the construction. I know 

 there was a hopper and stones, and that the 

 thjng made a clinking noise like the water-mills. 

 1 know that the whole affair occupied but a 

 small space. My barn was about forty feet 

 long and eighteen feet wide, and the mill stood 

 at one end of it. The man who made it for 

 me, and with whom I made a bargain in writr 

 ing, wanted me to agree to a specification of 

 the thing ; but I declined having any thing to 

 do with cogs and wheels, and persisted in sti 

 pulating for effects. And these were, that with 

 a certain force of horses, it was to make so 

 much fine flour in so long a time; and this bar 

 gain he very faithfully fulfilled. The price 

 was I think severity pounds, and the putting 

 up and altogether made the amount about a 

 hundred pounds. There were no heavy timbers 

 in any part of the thing. There was not a bit of 

 wood, in any part of the construction, so big 

 as my .thigh. The whole thing might have 

 been carried away, all at once, very conveni 

 ently, in one pf; my waggons. 



