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Threjhlng- Machine, — Remarks on Jfocrates. [Dec. 7, 



Thefe, except by t!ie natural means of 

 generation, are the principal caufes of the 

 increafe of population and cultivation in 

 the Uniied States, and they 'ill continue 

 to increafe in fpite of all thefe diladvan- 

 tages ; for if the wandering Arabs, in 

 their love of independence and boundlefs 

 liberty, are contented wih a defcrt with- 

 out Verdure or water, and plains of arid 

 fand where no cooling (hade invites the 

 parched, panting, and almoft (uffocated 

 traveler, we nctd not wonder that people 

 of a fimilar difpifition are to be found who 

 can be enamoured with a country which, 

 though very far from being the paradife of 

 the W(.rlil, is as much fuperior to the de- 

 lerts of Aiabia as the fouih of England is 

 to the rugged, dreary, and bleak, north- 

 ^rnraolt pans of Scotland. 



Beacon. 



to the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 



SIR, 



THE kind and fize of threfhing ma- 

 chine alluded to by your Correfpon- 

 dent Mr. Moggndge in your Magazine 

 for September, is made in this town and 

 neighbourhood at the price he quotes by 

 feveral m:chanics. They are not the ori- 

 ginal irventors, but have improved upon 

 the plan ot Mr. Meikle's patent (now ex- 

 pired), and are *ound to anfwer the de- 

 fired pnri ofe. The iron and brafs work 

 it nnnutaftured at the foundery of Meflrs. 

 Todd, Campbell, and Co., Hull 



I do not coircide in opinion with Mr. 

 M., that the mach.ne wanted fhould be 

 cheap. I do not mean it fliould be over- 

 charged ; but it is too often found that 

 cheap ttiings at tirrt turn out dear in the 

 end, particularly in machinery. The 

 threfl.iiig of corn requires a Itrong power, 

 which canntit be applied by a weak man 

 oi' a vveak machine. The latter are con- 

 tinually failing, and need repairs or alte- 

 rations. I kn.'W !ome farmers who have 

 had fuch, that turned them out with dif- 

 gu(t, and procured others larger and 

 ftronger, that prove durab!e, oo their 

 Wi rk in a much lupericr Ityle, nnd want 

 no ie,i.air. excepiiiig from accident or 

 wear. Stver.il h'-»ve rake* or ftraw (bak- 

 ers, tars or wi nouvers, mill ftoilcs, &c., 

 a;tached, which anlwer well. 



The infnrmaii n I have from makers 

 and ufers of ihicfliing-mtchinei coirelpond 

 with what I above Itate ; and from au- 

 thentic fourcts 1 am ei.abled todra* tiic 

 fo lijv.'ing conclulions, v.z , that flight- 

 made ones, price twenty to forty guineas 



each, are incomperent to their work, and 

 perpetually out of repair, confequently 

 not approved ; the kind at fifty guineas 

 anfwer better, and in general are approv- 

 ed , bu' thofe at fixty guineas t' one hun- 

 dred guineas or upwards are gieatly fupe- 

 rior from their (lability, and give entire 

 fatisfaffion. 



If Mr. Moggiidge or others of your 

 agricultural correfpondents wifh more mi- 

 nute particulars, ihey will receive anfwers 

 to their inquiries by addrelfing MefTrs. 

 Todd, Campbell, and Co. 

 i am. Sir, &c. 



Cannon-place, Hull, John TodD. 

 ■jih Sept. 1805. 



For the Monthly Magazine. 



REMARKS on the GRECIAN ORATOR ISO- 

 CRATES. £); ^Zif ABBE ARNAUD. 



I SOCRATES was born at Athens in 

 the 86th Olympiad, five years before 

 the Peloponnelian war. At an early age 

 he began to fludy philofophy and rhetoric 

 under Gorgias, Prodicus, and Tifeas, 

 whole doctrines and eloquence about this 

 period aftonifhed ail Greece. It is affirm- 

 ed that he alio was a difciple of the cele- 

 brated orator Theramenes, whom the 

 Thirty Tyrants caufed to be put to deatfi 

 becaufe he favoured the popular caufe.— 

 He paffionately loved glory; and the de- 

 fire of diftinguifhinghimfelf, and of bear- 

 ing a part in the public adininiftration, 

 animated all his proceedings. In order 

 to this end, befides pofTefTmg infoimation 

 and a turn for bufinefs, it was necelTary 

 to excel in elcquence ; but nature having 

 denied him both voice and felf-command, 

 without which it is impoflible to fway the 

 multitude, he direiSfed his efforts to com- 

 pofition. In the firft place, he propofed 

 to give to eloquence more of force and 

 niajefty, by breaking down the trammels 

 which a contrafled and ridiculous philo- 

 fophy had thrown around it. He aban- 

 doned thofe vain fubtihies in which the 

 fophilts lolt themfclves, as well as thofe 

 fublime obfcurities in which they were 

 fo fond of being enveloped. He confined 

 himfelf to interelimg quelfiors, fuch as 

 appeared to him calculated to render his 

 country happy and his fellow-citizens vlr- 

 tioos. His talents correfponded with the' 

 grai.deur of his views. Youth flocked 

 fnim a 1 psrts to be liis pupils, and to 

 f rm themfclves on his lefibns. Some of 

 them afterwards became orators, fomtf 

 great ftatelVnen, and o:hers polidied and 

 profound hiftorians. He died loaded 



with 



