74 Mr Waddell's Account of a Chinese Mangle . 
at Canton in China , when one day walking through the suburbs 
of that city. On passing the door of a house that was open, 
and seeing a man moving a large stone on the floor with his 
feet, I was induced to look in, and observed him at work mang- 
ling a piece of blue nankeen-cloth , by means of the stone. 
After having observed his labours for about fifteen minutes or 
more, I was so much impressed with the great effect produced 
by very little labour, and the most simple means, that it indu- 
ced me a few days after to have a model of it made from recol- 
lection. 
Plate IV. Fig. 1. gives two views of the mangle : 
And Fig. 1. shows the stone or mangle at rest standing on 
its end on the floor, with the roller and cloth lying ready 
to begin work. 
A, The floor of the house, which was paved with tiles . 
B, A concavity in the floor, lined, to appearance, with hard 
wood. 
C, The roller with the cloth on it. 
D, The stone, being a hard sandstone in appearance, and in 
weight from ten to twelve hundred weight, but so very 
ingeniously formed, as to stand on either end, as the 
workman chooses to rest it, while he examines his work ; 
and as he steps upon the stone again, he allows it to fall 
gently down on the roller. 
E, E, Two vertical bamboos, (cane,) fixed into the floor, 
with one across their upper ends, for the man to hold by 
when at work on the stone. 
Fig. 2. Shows the man mounted on the stone, and at work 
pressing alternately on each foot, by which the stone re- 
ceives an alternate motion, which makes the roller with 
the cloth pass over the whole of the concavity in the 
floor, and with as much or as little velocity as the work- 
man chooses to give it. 
Aw. Waddell. 
Leith, 30 th April 1821. 
