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exa£t, for there it. is the whole force of the Prefs 
refides. 
The quoins two feet long, about nine or ten inches 
broad, and fix or feven thick. 
The frame, in the framed Prefs, ten feet long or 
deep, and four feet nine inches fquare, with four 
fronts. 
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The nave eight feet and a half long, about five inches 
thick one way, and fix the other. 
All thefe timbers ihould be Oak, except the fcrew, 
which Ihould be Elm, which will laft longer, and the 
fpindle fhould be of Walnut. One may make the mod 
part of thefe timbers longer or according to 
the fize of the wood made ufe of 
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The defcriplion of a fight Prefs. 
This fort of Prefs is much lefs chargeable than the 
others, and it alfo preffes a much lefs quantity of 
Wine, but it is never th'elefs of great ufe for private 
perfons, who have no great vintage, where this will 
be fufficient, for it will make eight or ten pieces of 
Wine at each tunning. 
The conhrudtion of this flight Prefs is much the fame 
with that of the other Preffes, but I fnall explain 
wherein they differ. 
The pit which is made in the earth ought to be four 
feet deep, fourteen broad, and eighteen long, more 
or lefs, according to the fize of the intended Prefs. 
They make three little walls of ffee-frone crofs the 
Prefs, which occupies the bottom of the fquare of 
the bafon ; they make the walls in ‘ the middle two 
feet, and thofe on the fides two and a half thick. An 
opening muft be left in the middle of each of the 
fide walls, about twenty inches fquare, to place the 
two cheeks one oppofite to the other on each fide of 
the bafon, which ihould incline an inch and a half 
towards the bafon *, thefe muff be fquared and planed 
on three fides, from the top of the hillings, but the 
top ihould remain rough, in thefe fides, which are 
towards the bafon, they make a notch at the height 
of two feet and a half from the bafon, _ three inches 
broad, four inches deep, and two feet high in afcend- 
ing towards the head. 
They place the falfe hillings upon the middle wall ; 
and upon each of the other they place two piles, which 
embrace the cheeks, and are joined to them by fquare 
fupporters arid dove-tails. In croiling the piles and 
the falfe Hillings, they put the four hillings in notches 
as in the other Prefles •, thofe of the middle embiace 
the cheeks, and are joined to them as me piles aie, 
and ihould extend beyond the piles, which are be- 
hind the cheeks eight or nine inches. The top of the 
hillino-s ought to be notched an inch and a half, fit to 
receive the piles to keep the whole together •, then 
they put upon thefe the pieces of maye, which they 
dole, as hath been already faid, and the bafon is the 
fame with the other Preffes. 
The fpindle of the fcrew ought to be feven or eight 
inches longer than the back ox the cheeks, and em- 
brace them in their thickeh parts •, this is placed upon 
them, and fupported upon the keys, which crofs the 
cheeks, by nails, and muh be hayed behind the 
cheeks with a key ; alfo in front with four iron bats, 
making a fquare of a foot and a half, bored at the 
four corners with pins and nails four or five inches 
long towards the fcrevv-tap. Upon the fpindle they 
lay planks of the fame length, which they crofs in 
fuch a manner, that their ends are turned towards the 
front of the Prefs ; upon thefe planks they lay two 
crofs pieces of the fame length as the fpindle, which 
embrace the top of the cheeks under their heads •, they 
let them in at each end in front, where they are join- 
ed. Thefe crofs pieces and the cheeks ought to be 
nailed together, and they muh put four crols timbers, 
which fhould take hold of the head of the beams, and 
reach half the length of the head pieces, for a fup- 
port to each. 
They afterwards make a fcrew with the fame inftru- 
ment as that of the other Prefs, with a fquare at bot- 
tom, tojoin it to a wheel, which fhould be laid hori- 
zontally well confolidated with the fcrew, and joined 
with ribs and fpckes a foot wide croffwife ; thefe 
fpokes ought to projeft out of the ribs three or four 
inches of half their width, to be able to contain the 
rope, which muh be round the wheel Under the 
centre of the wheel they place a handard of the length 
of the fpace between the cheeks, and eight inches 
thick or more, to make a fort of tenon at each end, 
which goes into the notch of the cheeks. The handard 
fhould be fuhained by an iron pin, which goes in at 
the end of the fcrew, to be held fufpended by it, in 
fuch a manner that it may waggle. In order to this, 
the end of the pin which is under the handard, fnould 
play with the key which holds it at the other end of 
the fcrew. 
At ten or twelve feet from the Prefs they place a 
wheel, either horizontally or perpendicularly, with an 
axle-tree, which ought to play in the fliers of wood, 
well fixed ; they bind to the wheel, which is at the 
top of the bafon, to one of the fpokes, or one of the 
pins which is driven in for thispurpofe, the eilet hole 
of a great rope two inches and a half diameter. 
They can turn the wheel once or twice round with 
the hand, before they take hold of the rope, which 
ought 
