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mufl be ploughed different way*; to the 

 right and to the left, with a furrow left in 

 the middle of the ground at fmifhing ; or 

 elie the ploughman mull: begin in the middle 

 and arch up ; whereas the fliifting-board 

 enables him to throw his land all one way, 

 at the fame time that it has all the powers 

 of the fixed one. 



His Lordfhip ordered it to be worked 

 before me, and it is very obfervable that 

 the plough would cut its furrow at the 

 ufual depth and with great truth for feveral 

 perch, without holding: the ftrongeft proof 

 in the world of a good initrument. 



Plate V. Fig. 3. A horfe-hoe. 



1. The beam 5 feet 8 inches long, 4 in 

 breadth by 3-i thick. 



2. The handles iS inches to the join- 

 ing ; from thence 2 feet 2 inches to 

 the beam. 



3. A wooden coulter, 2 feet 5 inches 

 long, on a wheel. 



4. The front mare all of iron, which 

 works before the middle of the other 

 two, 19 inches long. 



5. The double (hare. 



6. The chain of the whippletree (7.) 

 8. The double {hare, a front view. 



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