3 S RAPE. 7. 



Thefe cloths are made of canvas, about fix 

 feet fquare, with poles fixt on two oppofite 

 fides (in the manner of a rolling map); open- 

 ings being left in the middle between the 

 poles and the canvas for two men to run their 

 arms through one on either fide ; the poles 

 refting by their middles on the men's fhoul- 

 ders ; the cloth filled with rape hanging be- 

 tween them. In thefe cloths the whole of the 

 crop is carried to the thraming-floor. 



The floor-men are divided into layers-on, 

 turners, takers-off, rake-men, riddlers, &c. 

 &c. &c. 



The rape to be thraflied is fpread thin up- 

 on the cloth, in a circle as large as the cloth 

 will contain. 



The thrafhers move continually in this 

 ring; marching with a How Hep in pairs, 

 and in two divifions ; the individuals of each 

 divifion following one another as clofely as 

 the nature of their employment will allow 

 them. 



The nrfl division are preceded by the 

 layers-on, and followed by the turners ; an4 

 clofeupon the rear of the fecond divifion fol- 

 low the takers-off; who with wooden-tined 



forks 



