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NeiV Patents lately enrolled. 



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for with tlie talents and fame of an accom- 

 plidied warrior, he is the iinifonn Aipporter 

 ot peace and order, among five or fix tribes 

 who put their trull in him ; fimple, wife, 

 temperate, ardent in his purfuits; fpraking 

 different Irjiiguagts eK quently, at ached to 

 the licreditaiy chief oi his tribe, whom he 

 Jiippoits though he might Aipplant ; pre- 

 ferving his dignity among the vulgar of 

 tveiy rank, by a correfl referve ; to his 

 fiie/ids, as it were, unemhodied, fliewing 

 all the movements of his foul, gay, witty, 

 pathe'ic, playful by tuins, a? his feelings 

 are drawn forth by natural occafions ; above 

 all things fincere." 



" While the weapons, drefles, and 

 trinkets of thefe people find thtir way into 

 ourcabinets; ornaments drawn frcm the 

 Indian wardrobe of the mind, the d refits 

 in which they exhibit the cre:<tions of their 

 fancy, may by foiiie be thought not un- 

 curitus. 



" The North American Irdians from 

 the fouth of the Mifliniri, and from thence 

 t" the Northtrn Octan, have no idea of 

 poetry, as it derives its charaftcr from 

 rhime or meafurc. Their fongs are fliort 

 erthiifiaiiic fentences, fuhjefled to no laws 

 of compnfition, accompanied by monoto- 

 nous nuific, either rapiil oi (l.'W, according 

 to the fibjeO:!, or the fancy of the finger. 

 Their apologues are numerous and inge- 

 niou?, ab( unding with incidents, and cal- 

 c^i.ated to ci nvey fome favourite ItfTon. 

 Tbcir tales, too, generally inculcate fome 



moral truth, or fome maxim of prudence 

 or policy. In one the inisfortunts of a 

 great chief are fo linked with his vices, 

 and wind up fo fatally at lad, that a man 

 of worth whom he fought to opprefs, is 

 by his own agency nrade the inftruraent of 

 his ceftruftion, and eftablifhed as his fuc- 

 cefi'or. The private virtues of this fuc- 

 cefLr, paiticularly his refpeft for the other 

 fex, the want of which was the great vice 

 of his predecttfor, is made the foundation 

 of his fame and profperiry. In anoiher, 

 the paiticular duties of women are en- 

 forced, by fhowing how certain women 

 who deviated from ordinary rules, were 

 perfecutcd by the Manitoo of the woods ; 

 in the progrefs of which, they are made 

 to owe their fafctv, in vario'.is trials, to 

 fome particular a6l of femaU difcretion or 

 delicacy, which ihey had before neglected. 

 The Ir.diai.s have thtir Circe, as well as 

 the Greeks, fhe is veiy feducing, and the 

 fa:e of her voiai ies very terrible ; the 

 ftrokes of the pencil by which file is drawn 

 are maffeily, but the tales refpefling this 

 lady are only calculated for the cars of 

 men. This people, worthy of a belter 

 fat^', aie gradually degenerating and wad- 

 ing away. I have fttn, fays Mr. D. an 

 Indian nation already fo degraded, that it 

 cannot produce a iingle orator. Half a. 

 century will rfface their belt peculiaiities^ 

 and, lo multiplied are the caufes of their 

 decline, perhaps extinguifh them alto- 

 gether." 



NEW PATENTS LATELY ENROLLED. 



MR. JAMES SHARPLEES, (BATH),/or 



ne^ij xn'ventfd C'lmhinntlons and Ar- 

 rcn^eir.enls of hnp'emeats and Mcchanic- 

 /d Ponxers, and certain frindpies aud 

 forms ofTahlesfor Sur'vejhjg, and I'a- 

 riouj other Purpofes. 



THESE inventions confifl-, fit (f, of two 

 or more wheels, pullies, rings, roll- 

 eis, chains, er cords, tooth. d or notched, 

 vvith ditfeient numbers of teeth or notches 

 which are any how arranged lb ss to be 

 cipable of being impelled, an equal num- 

 ber of teeth or notches at a time, lb that 

 a fucceflive variation or oiiibination of 

 their parts or points will take place, by 

 which the nnmher of impitlles rhat form- 

 ed them may be afcertariied. What dif- 

 tinguidies this part of the invcr.tion from 

 ctberi intended for afcertaining diltances, 

 and counting animal or mechanical mo- 

 ti ns, is, thai the wheel?, pullies, &c. that 



compofe the Inflrument may be feparated 

 and enclofed in different compartments of 

 the fame box, or in feparate boxes, or in 

 feparate rooms : provided they are equally 

 ni' ved by the fanne povvtr, a notch at a 

 time, or (if they are rings, rollers, &c. of 

 different diameters) an equal portion of 

 their periphiries. We fliall tranfcribe one 

 of the examples given by the patentee, 

 " Let there be two wheel*, marked with 

 charadters conel'ponding with Hie number 

 of their teeth, and a fixed pointer faft in 

 the pins that they move uptin ; and fiip- 

 pofe that by atny animal or mechanical 

 motion each wheel has been impelled 

 twenty. three teeth, the larger will have 

 made two revoluti:;ns and three over, the 

 fm<iller two revolutions and five over: 

 theie numbers three ard five, which I call 

 judicial, wiW apjjtar at the pointer. Set 

 down the plenary numbers tea and nine, 



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