1802.] On Catching Máles, Se; 469

and repaired by any common Carpenter or Wheelwright, and ſet to work by any common labourer. A deſcription ofit follows: II

Fig. 1. boards of oak, forming||; the ſides of the trap, eigh- M| Y

Fig.1.—A and Baretwo À | M N NY L

M teen inches long, five in- M| ches wide, and half aninch== thick.—C The bottom of c= the trap, more fully ex-: plained in fig. 2E‘a piecejof aK board, five inches longs two inches wide, half an inch thick, nailed on the top edges of 0 E the boards A and’ B; both to ſrengthenthe trap; and-to keep the M

ſides at a proper diſtäñce.

Fig. 2.—Thetrap withß itsbottom Gowaldec CCHA y, two pieces of, oak board, five inches wide, four in- Muu

ches and a half long, half an inch thick.— D an

apperture, nine inches long, four inches wide, made to receive the fall of the trap.— RA

L Ân hole for a common clout-nail-(forming the pivot of the| fall) to turn in. MI| / Fig. 3: IER Fig. 3.—D The fall-of the trap» M-| Id nine inches long from F to H, three 4| Ms.| quarters of an inch thick(the diſ- D MM tance from F to G&G two inches and HY M an half, or three inches) from G to FC n I H half an inch thick, and four MI inches wide.—G Shews“ the-hole-for the clout-nail forming the IE pivot.—M, the dotred lines, ſhew the manner in which the up- M A- per part of the fall D muſt be bevelled, to- prevent its falling Y

both ways.

Fig. 4.—The Mole-pot, the uſes df which wz be more fully explained after- wards, compoſed of four pieces of oak board, each five inches wide at the'top, nine inches wide at the bottom, twelve inches long, one inch thick, or therea- bouts, having two ears as at K K, with an hole in each large enough to carry 2 piece of ſmall rope or ſpun-yarn.

Com.& dg. Mags, Vel. VI.