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hindmost man brings his leg forward, and places it 
on the last mentioned picquet, when the foremost 
man, on such part of the surface as the plumb-line 
directs as before, receives from the carrier, and drives 
in, in like manner, another picquetand this is 
repeated as far as the road is intended to be carried. 
The fact is, it is not in the using this level, that 
is required either skill or ability, but in so direct¬ 
ing its proportion that it shall gain the point you 
want to attain with neither more nor less eleva-* 
tion or depression than what is required. An ex¬ 
perienced Director may perhaps change the pro¬ 
portion, and begin again to more advantage, after 
having, by a skilful glance of his eye, discovered 
where the instrument is likely to bring him to. 
However sufficient a subject of regret, to him 
who feels- it, the want of a sufficient stream of 
water to turn his Mills, still more so must be that of 
a total privation of that element to wash his Coffee, 
that is, independent of what is dispensed from the 
bounty of the clouds. Such situations, in Dominica, 
are not very common, though several there are: 
and the Coffee sent to market by Planters thus 
disadvantageous^ situated is-^eldom of so good a 
quality as that of those to whom nature has been 
more prodigal, by affording a copious stream, which 
requires not to be ceconomized ; and which will 
send the Coffee from the draining platform in the 
purity of cleanly whiteness, which contributes to 
its quality in the subsequent stages of its progress 
to market. ' Of 
