JQ2 Mg. FtOWMAN's SHE£P-F01D* 



***" qnkw,ord **** X recollect, the word Uine, w hid) in 

 the Highland language, he faid, fignifies lire; now our Dela-» 

 ware Indians call (ire tti i.day ; the refernblance in found is 

 certainly not final!. The Celts have, undoubtedly, been very 

 widely fjxead over the globe ; I believe they exified in this 

 country, and (.hat their defendants are tome of, the prefenjt 

 tribes *. That Celtic words fhould be found among the 

 Americans, when Celtic words are to be found almoft every 

 where elfe, is not I think to be wondered at." 



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IX. 



Account of an improved Sheep-Fold, contrived amkconftrucled hy 

 Thomas Plowman, Efq. of Broom in Norfolk, afid com- 

 municated by him to the Society for the Encouragement of 

 Jlrtsf. 



Advantages of JL HE model of Mr. Plowman's Sheepfold was forwarded to 

 fold" eW ^ P " Uie Secretar y °f lhe Society of Arts fell year with a letter 

 defcribing its properties and conftrucYion. It is made on an 

 improved and very fimple principle, combining many ad- 

 vantages over the old and expenfive method of folding by 

 hurdles ; and as the whole fold can be removed with eafe at 

 all times, it is found peculiarly ufeful in feeding oflf turnips on 

 the land in frofty weather, when hurdles cannot be ufed ; and, 

 as the faving of labour in agriculture is a leading object, he 

 has no doubt of feeing it, in a very few years, generally 

 adopted. 

 Durability. The expence, in the firft inftance, will exceed that of 



hurdles, for the fame given quantity of (he^p ; but having 

 had one in ufe nearly three years, he is fatisfied the faving 

 will be very confiderable : for, before he adopted this method 

 of folding, he loft. from thirty to forty nights folding in the 

 year, owing to the land being hard in dry feafons, fuch as the 



* Very confiderable fragments of the Celtic dialects are (till pre- 

 ferved in America ;. particularly, if I do not miftake,. among the 

 Ranticokes and the Katalba cr Katawbas. February 19, .1805. 



-r The Society awarded the gold medal for this ui'eful improve- 

 ment, and infertcd his account. 



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