160 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Sepr., 1902. 
As a specific case, let us take the unloading of the steamship “ Friesland” 
at the wharf of the Red Star Line in Antwerp. She is laden with maize, and 
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Fig 17.—Elevator at work removing the grain froma ship’shold. 1. Drive-wheel of elevator, 
driven by the ship’s steam; 2, top of elevator, seen projecting from the ship’s hatch, where it is 
clamped to the steel girders 10, laid across the hatch ; 3, wheel immediately preceding the pulley 
at the top of the elevator ; 4, hopper which receives the grain from the elevator buckets an 
delivers it on the grain belt 5, which in turn delivers the grain into the large wooden ROerey 65 
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from 6 the grain is spouted into the weighing hopper 8, suspended from the steelyard 7 ; 8 
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into bags, one of which (9) is shown being tied by two men. 
