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| 16 | 32 | When the retaining vessels are suspended, they are tipped, and the sludge scooped and shoveled from them into the wide-mouthed, View more quotes about ring">ring-bearing lift sacks. |
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| 16 | 29 | I allowed time for the cone to sink to the bottom. |
| 16 | 30 | The retaining vessels are, at the salt docks, lifted from the rafts by means of pulleys and counterweights. |
| 16 | 31 | The crew of a given raft performs this work. |
| 16 | 32 | When the retaining vessels are suspended, they are tipped, and the sludge scooped and shoveled from them into the wide-mouthed, ring-bearing lift sacks. |
| 16 | 33 | These, drawn and pushed on carts, fitted onto wooden, iron-sheathed rails, are transported to the hooked lift ropes. |
| 16 | 34 | These ropes run in systems to the surface and return. |
| 16 | 35 | Men at windlasses on the surface lift the sacks, which, when emptied, return on the slack loop. |