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■Drillwg and Thr-eshing Machines ? 



[Oct; 1, 



laid everything wafte with fire and Avord. 

 At York an engagement took place be- • 

 iwccn them and Aurelius, in which the 

 Angles were vic-torioub, and puii'ued the 

 Britons to Mount Damen*, whefe tliey 

 cnclofed them ; but in the niiilit the Bii- 

 lons niadti un uufxpefteri laliy, killcil 

 fonjc tiionfands of the Angles, and took 

 OrJu and Eofa prifoners, whom after- 

 wards Aurelius detained in captivity for 

 fomc time. After this virtory he took 

 Alcluid, now Dun-Briton,! put every 

 thinf there in i;ood condition, and made 

 var on the Scotidi tribe^^, fome of 

 whom h»: fubducd. But the Angles and 

 Saxons were like the Hydra of licrcides : 

 no fooncr was one party overcome, than 

 another arofe. For (hortly after this, 

 (A.D. 495,) Ccrdic, a Saxon, and his fon 

 Cynric, came from Ditmarlh, as it feems, 

 with five ihips, and landing at Cerdk-car, 

 now C'allhot, in ilamplliirc, they foujjht, 

 On the very liime diiy, with the Bri- 

 tons on the lliore clofe to their fhips. 

 !Night put an end to the engagement, 

 wiicn the Britons retrented, and thcfe 

 new guclU gradually fpread themfelves 

 along the roalt, and afterwards efiablifli- 

 ed the kin£;dom of Weftfex. Cerdic is 

 faid already to have diftinguidied hiinfelf 

 at home as a great warrior, and, encou- 

 ra!;;ed by his fuccefs iind experience in 

 war, to have refolved, after the example 

 of his compatriots, to fcek his fortune 

 in Britain. About this time the Angles 

 cftabliflied a new kingdom in Lindfey, 

 which »as foimded by a certain Cretta, 

 who defrended from \'ei:dcj;,J from 

 whom Uenglt was alfo dcfcended. Paf- 

 ceutius, the fon of Vortigern, %vho had 

 taken refuse among the ancient Anj^lcs, 

 and was probably the fon of llowen, 

 came to Britain ;;bout the fame time with 

 a ftronji army, but was routed, and fled 

 into Ireland, where he obtained alhft- 

 ance from one of the petty kings of that 

 iUaud, whofe name was Gilloman. They 



* This mountiin, probably, has alfo been 

 called Mens BadcKicus, as well as another in 

 Somerletthire, which is known by that name, 

 where Arthur, the fon of Aurelius, in the 

 \ear 5:20, gaincJ an important vidory ; for 

 CiUas, an autlior of tho'e times, mentions 

 a battle at Moi:s Bador.kui 44 years after the 

 arrival of the Angles ; and after him Beda 

 fpci-ks of it. 



f It is alio called Dunbarton, and lies in 

 Lenox, in Scotland ; whence it may be feen 

 huw far the territory of the Britfjns ftill at 

 thofe times extended into Scotland. 



X Son (if Huglcik, or tlje baxon OJin.-r 

 Jrarjtater. 



both croffed the fra to Cambria, wliere 

 they were defeated iu a battle, and llain 

 by Aurehus. 



At the clufe of the 5th century fifty- 

 one years were elapi'ed after thf" Saxons 

 had arrived in Britain with an iiitent'oii 

 of eliidjlilhing them!'"?lvcs there, and their 

 afliiirs flood thus. — The .lutes hod a little 

 but well-founded kini:dom in Kent The 

 Angles had another in Lindfey ; and of 

 their race were aWo the "overninj:; Dvike* 

 of Northumberland, whofe dominion was 

 ftill on a weak footini^. The Saxons ti> 

 the north of the Elbe had fixed them- 

 felves in WelVex, and thofe to the fouth 

 of that river had elinbUflied a kingdom in 

 Sulfex, where Ella, in the next century, 

 fhews himfelf as the moll powerful of 

 thofe foreign rulers in Britain. But the 

 kinsidom of SulVex is alfo the only one 

 that can, with any degree of reafon, be 

 afcribed to the fouthern Saxons, 



To the Etlitor of t lie Monthly Magazine, 



SIR, 



TlIEjuft celebrity of your Mifceliany 

 as a vehicle of puhlic intonnatioii 

 induces nie to requeft ymr early infertion 

 of this, as it would be particularly pleaf- 

 ing to me to obtain the information I de» 

 lire prior to the cnfuing feed-feafbn for 

 w heat. 



Though the drilling fyftem of hull'an- 

 dry ajtpears to be gaining ground daily, 

 a fatisfactory imjileincnt for depohtiiig 

 the corn in the rows is (in this neigh- 

 bourhood at leaft,) ftill a deiideratum. 

 Mr. Cooke's machine, though in numy 

 relpecis a valuable inltrument, isyetfub- 

 je6t to great oliicctioiisj, yniongtl whirti 

 the following me moll notorious. — 1. It 

 will not drill regidarlv over uneven 

 ground, Iheddiiig the feed very rapidly on 

 any hidden aU'cnt, and fowing none 

 where the declivity is unexpected ;' fo 

 that in drilling acrofs ridges, for inllance, 

 the afcending hidf of the ridge will be 

 fowed too thick, the defcending not at 

 all. — 2. In putting the hoife that driiws 

 the machine buck a few tleps, which is 

 often ncccfiary from the awkwardnefs of 

 the imichine itfelf, in turning ihort round 

 it is very liable to throw the corn out of 

 the open feed-box in very confideiT-ble 

 quantities by the retrograde motion of 

 the cups. — 3. This iimchine fows no corn 

 till the cylinder litis made half a revolu- 

 tion, equal to about a yard in length of 

 row, by which meaii,s the work has a 

 very irregular termination, and there is ' 

 often a neceflity of lliiiiig up the vacant 

 fpaces by hiuid, 



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