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We first had a stout sledge made, about four feet 

 square, of lumber pieces of wood, the side pieces 

 about five feet long, on which it slid, had a small 

 bend, and extended nearly a foot behind the cross 

 bottom sheaths, which were sparred over with three 

 narrow boards. The stout chain of a roller was af- 

 fixed to this sledge, when at use, to drag it by. In 

 the autumn we prepared the site where we intended 

 placing each tree, by throwing out the earth on two 

 sides about a foot deep, and eight feet square, and 

 then dug over the bottom of this shallow pit one 

 spit deep, and sloped the two other sides, to which 

 the earth had not been thrown, so that horses could 

 walk across it ; we then took the opportunity of a 

 slight shower, when the ground was slippery above 

 and hard below, so that the sledge could easily be 

 di'agged, and set the labom-ers to work to dig a nar- 

 row trench, two feet deep, and about three feet dis- 

 tant from the stem (more or less according to the 

 size of the tree), around those trees we intended to 

 remove, paying no regard to the roots, but cutting 

 them right down where they interfered with the 

 trench, and where the roots in the central part (the 

 part surrounded by the trench) were not immediate- 

 ly at the surface, paring off the turf till the roots 

 appeared. This being done, we caused them to un- 



