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ceive It. For this Purpofe, a fmaJl Rope, call’d the 
Guide*Rope, is faftend to the Weight, or to the up- 
per Part of the Gibbet near its Extremity, g, which a 
IV^n IS to pull to bring the Weight over the Place, to 
which It muft be lower’d. Now in performing this,the 
rnain Rope or Chain not continuing parallel to the Arm 
u ^he Weight a Tendency towards 
that Side to which it deviates, and that fometimes fo 
fuddenly, that without Care, and much Force applied, 
if the Weight be very great, the Burthen will fwing 
to or from the Carriage, fo as to break every thing 
in its Way. Sometimes an horizontal Piece, like an 
Handfpike, is fix’d in the upright Shaft of the Gib- 
bet a little above B, to turn it by ^ but in that Cafe 
too the Force is unequal, as the Weight is carried 
round ; fo that the Lives of the Men that are Load- 
ing, often depend upon the Care of the Man who 
guides the Weight, by either of the Means above- 
mentioned. 
AT. No Situation of the Pulliescan prevent this* 
and we find Accidents to happen every Day, as will 
appear by the Examination of Fig. 3. 
But if upon the Axis of the Gibbet there be fix’d 
an Iron Wheel, j/, with many Teeth, to be carried 
round by a Pinion, u, of a few Leaves, upon the End 
of whofe Axis is faften’d a Wheel, x, with Arms 
(that Axis going through the perpendicular Piece 
T Z behind the Shaft of the Gibbet ) a Man Hand- 
ing at that Wheel is out of Harm’s Way, and has 
fuch an Advantage of Power as to hold the Weiaht 
fteady in any Place requir’d, notwithftanding ^its 
Tendency to fwing, as mention’d above, which is 
not felt at the Ends of the Arms of this laft Wheel. 
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