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 to hoppers, from which it descends by spouts into the barrels in which it is packed.

46. Elevators.—The business of unloading vessels is followed as a special trade.

On the wharves in Buffalo may be seen, in many places, large signs announcing that elevators are kept for hire.

They are used for raising grain from vessels, storing it in warehouses, and transferring cargoes of wheat from one vessel to another, the grain in the last case being raised by the cans of the elevator, and then allowed to descend by a trough or shoot which guides it in any required direction.