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initj to purposes of beauty or utility, in the face of 

 prejudices both ancient and modern.'" 



The director having thus ascertained that the mark 

 made on the stem is uppermost, (which it will always be 

 when not prevented by other circumstances,) he directs 

 the driver to make such a circuit as to go right in towards 

 the south-east side of the pit ; by which means, as the 

 intelligent reader will perceive, the tree being drawn root 

 foremost, the marked side will directly face the opposite 

 quarter. 



While this arrangement is proceeding, which does not 

 occupy above a few moments, two workmen rapidly 

 ascertain or fix the exact site of the tree in its . new 

 situation, which till now has been marked out only by a 

 single stake driven into the ground. This is a still 

 speedier process than the foregoing, and is called "setting 

 off the tree.'' The two workmen, each with a stake in 

 his hand, place themselves in different quarters, about fiye 

 or six yards from the pit — the one, we shall say, on the 

 north, and the other on the west side — so as to be able to 

 describe two lines at right angles with each other, and to 

 keep clear of the path or direction of the machine. Then, 

 according to the military way of taking objects to move 

 upon in the field, they assume the stake in the pit as a 

 mutual centre, and some tree, or other object at no great 

 distance, as a second object ; and putting down their own 

 stakes as a third, they describe a right line with each of 

 the three. Thus the two lines marked out by these 

 offsets will intersect each other at right angles, or nearly 

 so, in the pit, and the point of intersection will be the 

 position of the tree. The stake in the pit may then be 

 removed for the admission of the machine, and a small 



* See Sect. IV., and Note. 



