. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. EOOK III. EMBANKING. 713 dryin;^ marl-pits, &<•., it may be used to advantage in excavating a sufficient passage f
. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. EOOK III. EMBANKING. 713 dryin;^ marl-pits, &<•., it may be used to advantage in excavating a sufficient passage for the water, withont ; a trench. In laying leaden pipes for the conveyance of water, it is also useful in making a hole. in which the pipe may be laid, without opening a cut on purpose. For tapping springs, or finding water at the bottom of a hill, either for the supply of a house, or for draining the ground, it may likewise be used with success; as the water of the spring, when hit on, will flow more easily and in greater abundance through a horizontal or level, than through a perpendicular outlet. 4318. T/ic manner of using it is this : — Suppose a lake or pond of water, surrounded with high banks, to be emptied, if the ground declines lower on the opposite side, find the level of the bank where the per- foration is to be made. There smooth the surfaceof the ground so as to place the frame nearly level with the auger, pointing a little upwards. It requires two men to turn the handles at top (a), in order to work it; and when the auger or shell is full, the rods are drawn back by revcrsnig the lower handle (4). Other rodsareadded at the joint when the distance requires them. In boring through a bank of the hardest clav, two men will work through from thirty to forty feet in a day, provided there is no interruption from hard stones, which will require the chisel to be on in place of the shell, and longer time to work through. If the length to be bored thro
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