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On cyder fruit the crlterions, but docs not ripen well, which is a great defedl 

 3f\d the making ]„ cyder making ; we named it The Bland of Hartlip. It has 

 the macula, or follicles in the fkin, more vifible than on the 

 golden pippin. I intend examining it with attention at a fu- 

 ture period, as it is not poffible to form a certain judgment on 

 it for fome years. My reafon for mentioning the Bland of 

 Hartlip is, to prove that the idea of fearching after new va- 

 rieties has made a general imprefllon throughout the kingdom. 

 It was the cuftom formerly, if a new apple had many good 

 points, but ripened late, to preferve the tree as a new vari- 

 ety, imagining that, as it advanced in age and acquired 

 ilrength, the fruit would ripen the fooner, and confequently 

 the cyder be richer. I fliould add to it, lay the land dry, and 

 fpread plenty of manure. Thefe attentions would much ac- 

 celerate the wiihed-for obje6l of improving the liquor, as well 

 as increafing the quantity of fruit. 

 I remain. 



Pear Sir, 



Your obedient Servant, 



Tho. Skip Dyot Bucknall. 

 Hampton-Court, Nov. 14, 1802. 



XXI. 



Concerning the Steam Engine from Mr. Blakey, hy a 

 Correfpondent, B. 



To Mr. NICHOLSON, 



London, March 20, 1 804. 

 SIR, 



OOME time about the year 1776, I met with an engineer of 

 ktS!"^^'^ the name of Blakey, in Holland, of whom Fergufon the phi. 

 lofopher and feveral other ingenious men have fpoken in high 

 terms. I do not know whether there is any hiftory of him or 

 of his works; but as many of his contemporaries muft fiill be 

 living, 1 fliould hope that this notice may produce fome infor- 

 mation through the medium of your Journal. I have lately 

 met with a pamphlet by this author, intitled '^ AJhorthijlorical 

 Account of the Invention, Theory, and Pra6iice of Fire Machi- 

 nery;" printed at London, in the year 1793, without bookn 



feller's 



