Agricola, Georgius, De re metallica, 1912/1950

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              nately backward and forward. </s>
              <s>By this movement the small particles
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              fall through the bottom of the sieve. </s>
              <s>In order that the end of the pole
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              may be easily placed in the rope, a stick, two palms long, holds open the
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              lower part of the rope as it hangs double, each end of the rope being tied to
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              the beam; part of the rope, however, hangs beyond the stick to a length of
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              half a foot. </s>
              <s>A large box is also used for this purpose, of which the bottom
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              is either made of a plank full of holes or of iron netting, as are the other
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              boxes. </s>
              <s>An iron bale is fastened from the middle of the planks which form
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              its sides; to this bale is fastened a rope which is suspended from a wooden
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              beam, in order that the box may be moved or tilted in any direction. </s>
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              <s>A—BOX. B—BALE. C—ROPE. D—BEAM. E—HANDLES. F—FIVE-TOOTHED RAKE.
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              G—SIEVE. H—ITS HANDLES. I—POLE. K—ROPE. L—TIMBER.
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              There are two handles on each end, not unlike the handles of a wheel­
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              barrow; these are held by two workmen, who shake the box to and fro.
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              <s>This box is the one principally used by the Germans who dwell in the
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              Carpathian mountains. </s>
              <s>The smaller particles are separated from the larger
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              ones by means of three boxes and two sieves, in order that those which
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              pass through each, being of equal size, may be washed together; for the
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              bottoms of both the boxes and sieves have openings which do not let
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              through broken rock of the size of a hazel nut. </s>
              <s>As for the dry remnants </s>
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