The Miller in Eighteenth Century Virginia
- ISBN-10
- 0910412197
- ISBN-13
- 9780910412193
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 32
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1958-02
- Publisher
- Colonial Williamsburg
- Authors
- Thomas K. Ford, Horace J. Sheely
Description
For this the runner stone must be removed and turned over so that the stone dresser , with his pickaxe - like " millbill " can operate on both faces . The dresser deepens the furrows , if necessary , and roughens the " lands " between ...
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