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where the straight end of the hook was driven into it when it was hfted out 

 of the copper mould ; the other jaw of the tongs, which has no tooth, 

 squeezes the cake, lest the tooth should fall out of it ; the tongs are one and 

 a half feet long, each ring is a digit and a half thick, and the inside is a palm 

 and two digits in diameter. Those cranes by which the cakes are lifted out 

 of the copper pans and placed on the ground, and lifted up again from there 

 and placed in the furnaces, are two in number — one in the middle space 

 between the third transverse wall and the two upright posts, and the other in 



A — Crane. B — Drum consisting of rundles. C — Toothed drum. D — Trolley 



AND ITS wheels. E — TRIANGULAR BOARD. F — CaKES. G — CHAIN OF THE CRANE. 



H — Its hook. I — Ring. K — The tongs. 



the middle space between the same posts and the seventh transverse wall. 

 The rectangular crane-post of both of these is two feet wide and thick, and 

 is eighteen feet from the third long wall, and nineteen from the second long 

 wall. There are two drums in the framework of each — one drum consisting 

 of rundles, the other being toothed. The crane-arm of each extends seventeen 

 feet, three palms and as many digits from the post. The trolley of each 

 crane is two feet and as many palms long, a foot and two digits wide, and a 

 palm and two digits thick ; but where it runs between the beams of the 

 crane-arm it is three digits wide and a palm thick ; it has five notches, in 



