fi. 332 J 
paratively in refpect of that made by the Pedome- 
ter) is ufually flow; and while it engroffes the con- 
ftant attention of two or more perfons in company, 
the refult is fometimes erroneous. A perfon ufing 
the Pedometer has not only, while at work, no need 
of an affiftant; but while, of himfelf, he meafures 
with greater accuracy and expedition than is done 
by the chain, if cafually an unemployed companion 
attend him, he is at liberty for the moft part, while 
the work goes forward, to bear a part in converfa- 
tion on any indifferent fubjeét. 
The idea of land-meafuring by this mode arofe 
from an impofition, perhaps, but too frequently 
practifed. A labourer’s tafk-work to be meafured, 
no one was at hand to carry the chain (the ufual 
term) but the labourer himfelf:—the land meafured 
and money paid, he went to the ale-houfe, got 
drunk, and boafted of having outwitted his mafter, 
in having fhortened the chain, by gathering fome 
of the links in his hand at its fore end. 
Hoping this may be added to the collection of 
ufeful machinery, lately accumulated in your repo- 
fitory, I take the liberty of thus defcribing its ad- 
vantages, and of hinting that if, promoted by the 
Board of Agriculture, an inclofure of our wafte and 
other lands fhould become general, it may be found 
of ufe in fuch undertakings. 
I am, Sir, refpectfully your’s, 
L. TUGWELL, 
Beverflone, May 2,1794. 
