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into a pivot, while the upper part of it was 

 confined to the poll, or perhaps to a tree, 

 with a rope or a wilhe. 



In the inftance under obfcrvation, the up- 

 per part of the hartree is hung in the ufual 

 manner with a hook and eye; and the foot 

 of it is fnod wnth a pivot of iron, fet upon 

 a large hard Jione4 



The great advantage of hanging gates 

 on PIVOTS is that of their being readily altered 

 with refped x.o fall or catching : moving the 

 pivot-ftone a quarter of an inch this way or 

 that with an iron crow, is frequently a fuffi- 

 cient regulation : the pivot, too, takes part: 

 of the zveight of the gate. 



But gates to be hung with pivots require a 

 peculiarity of construction. Every gate 

 when fhut ought to hang plumi? and level ; 

 that is, the head fhould be every way up- 

 right, and the bars horizontal. 



This requifitc however, and at the fame 

 time a proper /j//, cannot be had in a gate 

 made i;i the fquare^ and with ^jiraight hartree. 

 Either the lower jvirt of the hartree mufl be 

 crooked^ or the gate mnft be made cut of the 

 fquare ; thai is the barsmuft ^c.vc^A fomcwhat 



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