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Excerpt from Social England, Vol. 4: A Record of the Progress of the People in Religion, Laws, Learning, Arts, Industry, Commerce, Science, Literature and Manners, From the Earliest Times to the Present Day; Section II
For the more facile perforation and boring of lumber to make pipes and aqueducts, and the excavating of columns. It was used in Switzerland, and Evelyn suggested its introduction, with improve ments, into England.
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