Ch ap. IL of Gardening. 



All Baskets and Wheelbarrows hold about, a Foot Cu- 

 bical of Earth 5 the Panniers that thefe Beafts carry hold 

 about the fame Quantity: Bur, as an Afs has two Panniers, 

 he carries twice as much at a Time, fo that one Turn of the 

 Afs is as good as two of the Basket or Wheelbarrow^ and 

 cofts very little more, though there be a Woman or little 

 Boy to lead him. There is, befides, a good Reafon for 

 efteeming thefe, for that the Affes loiter but little, they are 

 ufedto a certain Pace, which, tho'flow, forwards the Work 

 however, becaufe 'tis conftant from Morning to Night,, 

 without any other Interruption, than that of a Baiting-time, 



If you have a mind to make ufe of Men that drive 

 Wheelbarrows, and carry Baskets, 'twill be abfolutely ne- 

 ceffary to have People fet over them to haften them ^ thefe, 

 in France^ we c^W Piqtieurs^ whofeBufinefs it is to prevent 

 their holding Difcourfe, and loitering the Time away one 

 with another 5 and above all, that they hinder not each o- 

 ther, but have different Ways made for them to go and 

 come. The Wheelbarrow-^Men make five or fix Stages, ac- 

 cording to the Length of the Way, delivering full Barrows, 

 and taking back empty ones, which- is. a way of managing 

 pleafant enough. 



THE FIRST PRACTTCE. 

 To fet out a Le-vel Line upon the Ground. 



Suppose the Ground be upon a flat Situation, as. that of 

 F I G. I. a Plain, and you 



S... would reduce it 

 ^ to a perfe^TtLevel, 

 § youmuftdothus: 

 ^ Chufe as eaven a.. 

 Place as you can 

 upon one of the 



^ J , , ^ ^ , Extremitysofthe 

 Ground, as A, where fix two Stakes, of five or fix Foothiah 

 with very fmooth Heads, for laying a Mafon's Rule upSa 

 them of eight or ten Foqt long, vyhich ihoxM be very ftrait,. 



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