lQ/ t AMERICAN CROW. 



P ("caption with Dtfcvlption of the Shccpjbld. 



reference to the 



drawing. Hale XI. Fig. 1. Shows one divifion or part of this fence 



twenty-one feet long, and three feet eleven inches high, com- 

 peted of the following parts : 



A. A top rail three inches deep and two inches thick. B. 

 The upper bar, three inches deep, and three-quarters inch 

 thick. CC, The two lower bars, four inches by three- 

 quarters of an inch, which, with the upper bar, are morticed 

 through the uprights. I3DDD, Which uprights are oak, 

 three inches by two inches. E, The lower bar, three inches. 

 by three. F, An upright bar, with the horizontal bars halved 

 into it. GG, Two oak uprights, three by two inches. 



Fig. 2. Shows the oak uprights GG. II, The axletree, 

 three inches by three, and three feet between the wheels. I, 

 An oak knee, which connects the uprights, Q G with the 

 axletree, by means of two fcrews and nuts, ' 



Fig. 3. A plan, in which the axle it is fiiown with two 

 arms KK at right angles to H, which are made to act as 

 pivots to the wheels, when intended' to be moved in a direc-. 

 lion at right angles to the bars. 



Fig. 4. Is a view of the fame parts defcribed in fig. 3* 

 The wheels marked W, in all the figures, are of cad iron, 

 and coft 3s. 6d. each. 



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X. 



Antzdoies of an American Croiv. By William Bar.tram*. 



Anecdotes of a IT is a difficult talk to give a hiflory of our crow. And I 

 crow. hefitate not to aver, that it would require the pen of a very 



able biographer to do juftice to his talents. 



Before I enter on this fubjeel minutely, it may be neceflary 

 to remark, that we do not here fpeak of the crow collectively, 

 as giving an account of the whole race, fince I am convinced 

 that thefe birds differ as widely as men do from each other in 

 point of talents and acquirements, but of a particular kind of 

 that fpecies, which I reared from (he ncft. 



* From the Philadelphia Medical Journal, Vol, L part I. 



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