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machine may be made to move uniformly 
by a weight, this rate might be maintained 
for any length of time, and I believe few 
writers would be found to copy with equal 
speed for many hours together. Imper- 
fect as a first machine generally is, and 
suffering as this particular one does from 
great defect in the workmanship, I have 
every reason to be satisfied with the accu- 
racy of its computations ; and, by the few 
skilful mechanics to whom I have in con- 
fidence shcwn it, I am assured that its 
principles are such, that it may be carried 
to any extent. In fact, the parts of which 
it consists are few, but frequently repeat- 
ed, resembling in this respect the arith- 
metic to which it is applied, which, by the 
aid of a few digits often repeated, produces 
all the wide variety of number. The 
wheels of which it consists are numerous, 
but few move at the same time; and I 
have employed a principle by which any 
small error that may arise from accident 
or bad workmanship is corrected as soon 
as it is produced, in such a manner as 
effectually to prevent any accumulation of 
small errors from producing a wrong 
figure in the calculation.—Of those contri- 
vances by which the composition is to be 
effected, Ihave made many experiments 
and several models; the results of these 
leave me no reason to doubt of success, 
which is still further confirmed by a work- 
ing mode} that is just finished, 
Agricultural Report. 
[Oct. 1, 
STATE OF THE THERMOMETER AND BA- 
ROMETER IN AUGUST AND SEPT. 1822. 
Thermometer. |Barometer. 
Night. , Day. | Morning. 
Aug. 24 eee 49 66 29°70 
25 sees 47 63 66 
26 sees 42 64 66 
QT woes 41 68 66 
2B eeee 47 62 68 
QQ eeee 52 62 50 
BO cece 48 62 74 
B1 cess 41 70 87 
Sept. 1 +++. | 47 70 30° 
Q sees 40 63 29°90 
3 + 56 68 83 
A vee 45 70 90 
5 sees 56 67 80 
6". 58 70 78 
T eee 40 67 90 
B eeee 53 64 78 
9 sess 47 60 85 
10 sees 37 68 98 
11 sore 52 60 30. 
12 eoee 54 68 29°74 
13 o-0e 43 65 30° 
14 wee 45 64 & 
15 sees 54 63 29°90 
16 ses. 51 75 97 
17 ++. 54 73 97 
18 cere 53 74 30° 
19 «... 53 72 29:99 
20 «- 54 70 90 
21 -+.- 52 70 80 
22 seco 55 67 80 
MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
— 
ARVEST was finished in the southern 
and forward districts during the 
course of the last month; in the northern 
and less favoured, during the present. A 
tolerably accurate general estimate may 
now be formed. On all the best lands, 
wherever situated, the wheat crop is con- 
siderably above an average, the quality un- 
commonly weighty and fine; and the 
straw, although not so bulky as in some 
years, substantial and extremely valuable. 
The oat-straw, as fodder, will almost equal 
the hay of some years. The spring crops, 
it is now confirmed, are generally detec- 
tive, but the quality is generally good; 
upon moist and productive light lands, 
however, some of these crops have reached 
an average ; and, with respect to barley, it 
is remarked in the barley counties, that the 
old stock on hand equals in quantity the 
new growth. Hays and grasses rather of 
fine condition than very great plenty, with 
exceptions of heavy crops and constant 
plenty of green food, particularly aftermath 
on various parts. On potatoes and turnips 
nothing new, the former a universally pro- 
ductive growth, the quantity greatly en- 
hanced by superior quality, the latter de- 
fective in both; as to Swedes, scarcely 
any quotable crop. The eagerness of the 
farmers, and the two growths, occasioned 
part of the wheat almost every where to 
be carted and stacked prematurely ; whenee 
heating, and a necessity of preventive mea- 
sures. A great hop and fruit year, even to 
pears, in some parts. The greatest grape 
season of the last forty. The eider manu- 
factory has commenced. The live stoek 
and flesh markets, as well as that of corn, 
have of late made some stand and some ad- 
vance in price; but autumn, the season of 
plenty and of overflow, isathand. The 
tallows are backward for want of rain, and 
very little wheat has yet been put into the 
earth, The state of the farming interest is 
truly deplorable, in which the poor la- 
bourer must necessarily share. It is 
greatly to the honour of Sir Henry Bun- 
bury, that he has taken the lead in recom- 
mending, by a circular to bis Suffolk 
tenantry, the discontinuance for the present 
of the use of the threshing machine. 
Smithfield :—Beef, ¢s. 4d. to 3s. 8d.— 
Mutton, 2s. 6d. to 3s, 6d.—Veal, 2s. 6d. 
to 3s. 8d.—Pork, 2s. 6d. dairy do. 3s. 6d. 
to 4s,—Lamb, 2s. 6d, to 3s,—English 
bacon, 
