e# LANCASHIRE. 37

wood fluted rollers five inches diameter and ſix foot long, which are fixed ſo as to be right in the center of the cylinder as it runs round; and under the cylinder is fixed a playboard, which 1s the whole length of the cylinder, àând goës about one third of the way round the cylinder, and is made ſo as to ft to

the ſhape of the round of the cylinder; and at one fide it is fixed cloſe up to the under roller, and the other ſide of the play- board is where the corn and the ftraw come out, n ſome little that drops through the playboard, which is made with ribs of an inch and a half broad, and two deep, and half an inch diſtant one from another: the playboard is faſtened to the frame that ſupports the machinery, where the corn and the ſtraw come out on a ſwivel, turned by two wood pins; and at the other ſide up to the under roller it is ſupported by two wood levers, one at each end; which, by weight being hung on the levers, forces the playboard either nearer or farther off the cylinder: if the corn comes out foul-thraſhed, the play-board muſt be forced nearer the cylinder by more weight.

"The rollers are worked by the ſpor-wheel, which has a caſt iron wheel of twa foot diameter, which contains 72‘Cogg&S, and 1s fixed right in the center of the ſpor-wheel, which works into another wheel of the ſame diameter and the ſame number of coggs, which is fixed to a ſtrong upright piece of wood that ſupports the ſpor-wheel, and this works into another caſt iron wheel of one foot and a half diameter, and contains 52 coggs» which is fixed to the énd of the under roller: theſe rollers draw the corn in from of a feeding board, which is as broad as the rollers are long; the top roller is fixed in wood levers, at cach end one, which are faſtened into the frame by a ſwwvel turn at one end, and the other ends of the lever lie looſe upon the frame, which have weights hung on them as occañon requires for drawing in the corn more or leſs.

Now as theſe different motions are all connected together, they appear to be ſimple, and e E up eight foot ſquare in the inſide of the barn, by ten foot high. The gangway is eight yards ſquare, which the horſe-wheel works in at the outſide of the barn. The horſes travel at the rate of 2 miles

and