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possessing small power ; the other, for the greater trees, 

 being weighty, and possessing much greater power. In 

 this way, power (which, as the best philosophers have 

 agreed, is nearly the synonyme of money) wonld never be 

 idly employed, but judiciously suited to, though never 

 suffered to transcend, the immediate object of the planter. 



As this reasoning appears to be conclusive, I shall 

 now proceed to give a delineation of the larger and 

 smaller machines used at this place ; to which shall be 

 added one of an intermediate size, chiefly intended for the 

 use of such planters as do not choose to put themselves 

 to the expense of more than one such implement, and 

 who do not mean to remove trees beyond thirty feet high, 

 and from twelve to fourteen inches in diameter, at a foot 

 from the ground — which trees this machine should be 

 capable of managing. See plate TV. The diagram here 

 given relates to the pole, axle, and framework of the ma- 

 chine — that is, to every part of it excepting the wheels. 

 The latter it was considered as unnecessary to delineate 

 in the diagram, as the entire " machine in motion'^ is given 

 in plate III. ; and any good carpenter can make the 

 wheels, on the dimensions being furnished to him. The 

 main difficulty in constructing an effective machine lies in 

 proportioning the different parts to one another, and so 

 adapting the whole to the style of work to be executed, 

 that despatch shall be promoted in the highest degree, and 

 that the heaviest work shall be executed by means of the 

 smallest possible weight of wood and iron. 



These machines, as already said, are of the simplest 

 structure, and evidently borrowed from the j anker of the 

 wood-merchant."'^ The pole is made of the best oak, the 

 axle of iron, the wheels of Oak, Elm, and Ash, as also 



* Note II. 



