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chalk is drawn and wheeled out by hand, for seven’ pence‘per load, near the well: at a greater distance one-horse carts are employed; two carts with a boy to drive, and three men to draw: get 25 loads per day. The man be- low fills one bucket or tub, while another is drawing up. A large stone is hung to the roller to go down, while the full bucket is coming up; which takes off much ofthe weight: this stone comes up again as the empty bucket goes down. Plough light Jand here with a pair of horses, one acre and a quarter per day: on stiff land, three or four; or four oxen do an acre per day. View Mr. Doo’s thrashing mill; one great ob- ject of my journey: the principle the same as my own, and’many others betore described; the main wheel twenty-five feet and a half in-dia- meter: it has some additional machinery, that carries the straw out into the farm yard after it is thrashed; it seems worth consideration, whether two boys, at six-pence per day each, would not do this part of the work, and save the labour of one horse, and an additional strain to the main-wheel. At the side of the wheel, opposite to the thrashing mill is fixed a pair of corn: stones, to grind‘barley,&c. for hogs; and also a chaff cutting engine, with four knives: either the thrashing mill, the corn stones, or the chaff cutter, may be used separ