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had them broken, and found many difficulties. 

 To remedy this, he had a contrivance very 

 fimple and ingenious, which anfwered the 

 purpofe completely. The puncheons were 

 hooped ftrongly with iron near each end, and 

 between thefe irons was a chain, from the 

 centre of which went an iron tongue. The 

 Hones, at low water, were lafhed round with 

 a chain with open irons that correfponded with 

 thofe tongues in the cafk chains r the one went 

 into the other, and when clofed had a female 

 fcrew through all three-, through the two jaws 

 of the one, and the tongue of the other, a 

 male fcrew at the end of a bar^was then fcrew- 

 ed in when the ftone w T as ready to move. One 

 of 8 tons required 10 puncheons upon being- 

 floated over the fpot where w T anted ; thefe bars 

 v/ere unferewed, and the ftone and cafks dif- 

 engaged at once without trouble, the one fink- 

 ing, and the cafes floating away with the chain 

 that was lafned round the ftone. 



Left Balbriggen and went to Bally-garth, 



the feat of Pepper, Efq ; a place very a- 



greeably wooded on a riling ground above a 



river. 



Mr. Pepper keeps a confiderable domain in 

 his hands, and has practiced feveral parts of 

 hufbandry with much attention ; he has laid 

 down large tra&s to grafs, which he has made 

 fo good that he could let it readily for 50s. to 

 3I. an acre. His courfe of crops has been 

 fometimes, I. Turnips. 2. Barley. 3. Clover. 

 4. Wheat ; and has cultivated turnips in con- 

 fiderable 



