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then lifted in a fieve purpofely conftru&ed, and if it needs, muft be 
fent to be buddled again, then returned to the keeve and worked as 
before with a {hovel, which they call taxing the tin : the keeve is 
then packed., that is, beat with a hammer or mallet on the {ides, 
that the ore within may drift and {hake off the waft, and fettle the 
purer to the bottom. The foul water then on the top of the keeve 
is poured off, and the fordes which fettles above the tin, is ikimmed 
off, and what remains is pure enough to be fent to the melting- 
houfe, and is then called Black-tin. The waft Ikimmed off, is 
carefully laid by to undergo another wafhing. Whilft the forepart 
of the buddle, I, is thus manufacturing at the keeve, another hand 
is moving forth that part of the buddle, in the fame manner as g 
was before ; and in its turn that, and the fettlement at /, is pro- 
moted to the keeve, and thus what is depoftted in the forepit, F, 
is brought about , as the tinners term it, that is, undergoes all the 
neceffary lotions. 
What runs off from F, into G, and H, muft be dealt with in an- Trunking 
other manner. The contents of thefe pits conftft of the fmall and thc ^ ims ’ 
lighter parts of the ore, and are intimately mixed with a greater 
quantity of earth and ftone bruifed to duft by the mill. Thefe 
are called the Jlimes , and are carried by fome boys ( moftly under 
fourteen years of age) by direction of the chief workman, to the 
trunk O, whofe head (called the Pednan) is a femicircular pit, 
wherein a boy moves the flimy tin round with a little fhovel that 
the water (which runs into P from Q, called the Strakes) may wafh 
away both the filth and tin over a crofs ftick or board about ten inches 
deep: the board is fomewhat lower in the middle than at each end, 
for admitting the watry mixture with more cafe into the body of the 
trunk, O, R, R, which is a pit lined with boards ten feet long, 
three wide, and eight inches deep ; that which refts in the forepart 
of the trunk at O a, is carried off to be framed , and the fettlement 
at R R, is moved forward to P to be trunked over again before it 
is fit for the frame. The frame, T W, confifts of two planes of Framing, 
timber \ the body W, the head T. The water falling in a gentle 
manner from S upon the head T, wafhes the ore, which there of- 
fers itfelf (as at the buddle) in little ridges, downwards over a Hope 
piece of timber, U, called the Lippet , into the body of the frame 
W. Upon this frame the water is fpread fo thin, and runs fo {lowly, 
(the plane being nearly horizontal) that by moving the fiimy tin to 
and fro with a light hand, and expofing it cautioufly to the water 
with a femicircular rake, all the fordes is wafhed away, and the 
tin, though ever fo fmall, remains on the frame near the head m , 
when the tin is found fufficiently clean, the body of the frame, 
which is fixed on two iron axes, called Melliers, one at the head. 
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