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and to this 
make altogether about three sees a great deal 
d.”? sae aia ca *¢ there is 
t they may eafily be broken off a poft, and 
away ; and to obviate this, he confeffes henfelf j in- 
comeett to advife any certain mode of fecuring them ; 
but he fubmits that where fuch depredations ag aah oe €X- 
e fou 
e writer concludes by cee 
many inventions of {pring Sc a and 
aes the common forts of which are very liable to be 
ut of repair, by being conftantly expofed to the ie 
er that thofe of a fuperior kind are too expentive for ge- 
neral Purpe ofes. 
At be ufeful to infert, among thefe different forts of . 
es rive ed to it, that ma 
gates, pig-liies, dog-kennels, ‘and othe places of a fimilar kind, 
n duétion of caft-ir 
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GATES, a hi Hangings and Faftenings for.—The introe 
nges and faftenings for gates be been 
» attempted, and mt without fuccefs, by Mr. r, by 
which the expence in fuch cafes is greatly ielfened, a at 
the fame _ ie durability of the articles vaftly increafed. 
It is remar im, “that not a dingle inftance of failure 
s come an his knowledge in this fort of ir iron-work 
to the ca pean es nd renee ie the faving e the 
public by the “adopting of caft iron, in comparifon with 
1e beft 18 fuppofed, apparently 
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The ae have been ‘ificaly. to be ferved with pro- 
per ae of thefe caft-iron hangings and fa aftenings, by 
Melflrs. eerman, Francis, & Co. Eagle Foundery,, Birming- 
; the caftings being completely finifhéd and fitted at 
un 
The following hints, or memoranda, are fur rnifhed with 
the view of affording a diftings method of giving orders for 
the caft-iron work to thofe gentlemen or other perfons 
who may wifh to make a trial of it. 
or the gate fhewn at fg. 6, to which a head-ftrap and 
ftrap-thimble are adapted, o cait iron, es the inter-. 
h of the nine-f feet iron ftrap, the dire¢tions 
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top-rail for the ae as No OS. » 4, 5,6, and 7, 
b. 45. 8d. are only required; ae 12 tw ae ferew. Sy 
and two one and a half inch ditto. .And for a common 
ae not having a ftrong top-rail for the feos 
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teen in number, 
caine fw ring-gates, 5.93 
It is ftated, in addition on, ae the tha apes of the heat 
ieces of caft-iron work will point out the manner in which 
they are refpe€tively to be attached to the gates in ordinary 
cafes. 
Gare, in Engineery, is applied to the clefe-boarded 
oors of locks or fluices on canals or rivers, for penning the 
water: ina lock thefe are diltinguifhed by upper-gates and 
i neuer according as they are placed at the head or tail 
of. the lock. See Cana 
GATE; 
