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nution, and as far as possible inverted during the 

 process. 



You may call this ' Theory/ my good Mr. Prac- 

 tical, but I tell you it is TRUTH : simple, obvious, 

 philosophical, practical Truth. Since the Invention of 

 the Steam Engine, it might and may be done at one 

 process, as easily as before in twenty; and it will 

 be. Before we depart this life, we shall see one more 

 wonder moving upon the face of the earth, some- 

 thing of this form and fashion to wit a complete 

 locomotive engine on four wheels, the fore pair turn- 

 ing on a transome, the hind ones fixed ; behind them 

 (suspended) a transverse, cylindrical shaft, three feet in 

 diameter, from six to eight feet long, reminding one of 

 a cross-breed between a clod-crusher and a hay-tedding 

 machine, armed with case-hardened steel tine-points, 

 in shape like a mole's claw, arranged so that the side- 

 lap of each claw may cover the work of the other, and 

 no interval or ridge be left uncut : the extremities of 

 the cylinder just covering the wheel-tracks. This 

 cylinder of claws you will see raised or depressed at 

 pleasure by the engine-driver, and adjusted to slow 

 or rapid revolutions, worked cither by cog-wheels, or 

 geared from the drum of the Engine. That is the 

 " cultivator." A platform from the Eugine extends 



