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GENTLEMEN SORTERS
open hand on the surface: it is slowly but irresistibly
drawn down ; and here, buried in the midst of the
warm gravel, one feels as if it lay upon the pulsing
heart of the machine.
I have spoken of the swift jet of water which is
flung on the contents of each truck as it reaches the
mouth of the washing machine, and of its object—viz.,
the freeing of the gravel from all mud and clay. The
process is really completed by a mechanical separator
before the gravel enters the pulsator. The separator
consists of three great revolving pans, which circle round
iron combs let in like barbicans into their midst. Water
pours in and the pans revolve from dawn till dark. At the
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