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spare copper for the purpose, you may be put to 
the necessity of continuing the use of this damaged 
grater, and thereby of rendering unmerchantable 
the remainder of your crop. 
The Manager of an Estate, as I observed at the 
beginning of this Treatise, ought to be capable of 
laying out, tracing and making of roads, wherever 
wanted. The process of tracing a road is so simple., 
that I will engage to take a field-negro, who never 
saw the operation, and make him an expert road 
tracer in an hour. 
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The instrument most proper for the business is 
by the French called a Ccibrit (probably from 
keeping its legs where few other than that agile 
animal can do so) and is no more nor less than a 
common level, such as is used by carpenters and 
masons, having legs descending at right angles from 
each end, of such differences in the length, as you 
mean to give to your road either ascent or declivity. 
Some people, more from affectation than utility, 
have them of nice workmanship, with one leg run¬ 
ning in a sliding groove, graduated in inches and 
parts, and having holes to put a small pin in to fix 
it at the length wanted. I have, however, generally 
put them together out of rough board, with a few 
nails, as their construction will not take above five 
minutes ; in which case I first make the two legs 
of the same length, and saw off from one of them 
as 
* Goat, or young Goat. 
