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VOLUME XXXIII.— No. 6. 
NEW YORK, JUNE, 1874. 
NEW SERIES— No. 329. 
One need not go to the Holy Land to find 
"two women" "grinding at a mill," as the an- 
cient mill is still to be found among the Irish 
peasants. The mill consists of two stones about 
22 inches in diameter, the lower being about an 
kich smaller than the upper. The upper face of 
the lower stone is convex, and has in its center a 
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strong pivot. The upper stone, which is con- 
cave on the lower side, to match the face of the 
lower stone, has a three-inch circular hole in 
its center; across this hole is fixed a strong 
piece of wood, which has upon its under side 
a hole extending part way through to serve as 
a socket for the pin in the lower stone. By 
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means of this cross-piece and the pin the two 
stones are kept together, and by placing bits of 
leather in the socket or hole in the cross-piece 
the two may be separated more or less as the 
meal is required to be coarser or finer. A handle 
is fixed on the upper stone. As in olden 
times, this mill requires two women to work it. 
