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horse does the business of three. But drivers ? Let us 

 examine : I get but little there ; but what do 1 lose ? A 

 man, at is. 6d. a day, drives away 32 bushels; this is a 

 fra6lion more than a halfpenny a bushel : a boy at 6d. 

 Tvich me drives away 1^^; this is not a halfpenny. Here 

 then is no loss in driving, with an enormous gain in team ; 

 and the measure of employing children to execute the 

 work of men, is a parochial and national benefit, which 

 wants no explanation. I need not observe, that with one- 

 horse machines, of whatever kind, it is not necessary to 

 allow a horse in the standing can ; tlie horse in an Irish 

 car, or any other, it prepared with that view, is attached 

 in an instant, as quickly as you hook a traice-horse to a 

 thiller. But in this point, an improvement which was 

 introduced by Mr. Colhoun, deserves attention. 



This is, a contrivance to draw the carts of any size 

 out of the pits by means of a capstan ; he uses large 

 three-wheeled tumbrels, and to save the extra number of 

 horses, which are used in comiifon to get the load out of 

 the pit, he applies a boy and a horse to the lever of a cap- 

 stan, and draws up the load with s.) little loss of time, 

 that the whole operation takes but three minutes and a half, 

 and with horses in the common way, three : if it de- 

 manded more, the obje(5l:ion would go no further tliaa 

 letting there be an extra cart in the pit, which would j^re- 

 vent any waiting. Mr. Colhoun's are three-wheeled 

 carts. By means of this machinery, the pit may be dug 

 of any (bpth, without iinpediiig the laising the load ; a 

 great advantage, not only to the men in filling, but also 

 in the quality of the clay or marie, which is usually bet- 

 ter at the bottom ot a pit than in any other part of it. I 

 measured the depth of one pit, which was above 20 feet. 



The country about Snetterton was all marled many 



years ago^ Mr. Fowj^ll's farm, fihy years past, and was 



t> d 3 done 



