New Patents and Mechanical Inventions. 



1824.] 



Yet thou can'st give the vales perfume, 



And all the Suminei's verdant bloom; 



When the loud tempest rushes forth, 



To hold its wild terrific course, 



On the arrowy, sleety show'r, 



I see thine all-pervading pow'r ; 



I see thee on the j-torm's career. 



Thro' whirlwinds riding, void of fear. 



Lo! when the icy champion, Frost, 



Forth holds his dread despotic course, 



And chains the polar vvat'ry deep, 



And binds its waves in icy sleep. 



Ah! then thon tak'st thy rudest form. 



Terrific as the midnight storm ; 



E'en then I see thee, gentle maid, 



In some cavern reclining laid, 



Which Nature, in her kindest mocd, 



Thus forra"d to be the spot she lov'd ; 



Here, on a clear and crystal bed, 



A sparkling radiance round thee shed. 



Thou view'st the forms and shapes that 



rise, — 

 Spires, — villages, — delight thine eyes ; 

 While mighty columns heave the arch, 

 And dancing tapers light the trance. 



The woods,--tiierocks,-theswellingflood,— 

 The mountain steep, and quiet vale, — 



237 



The winding stream, that murmuit rude, 

 And lisps its purlings thro' the dale, — 



The peeping dawn,— th' ascending fire, 

 That lifts the rising hills with joy, — 



These thy fair form can e'er inspire, 

 Sweet Fancy, nymph so shy and coy. 



Sweet rosy maid, with colours drest, 

 Then come and be my welcome guest ; 

 My humble roof should fairer rise 

 Beneath thy solt enchanting eyes ; 

 With thee in hand, 1 fain would go, 

 More eager than the mountain roc. 

 And in thy flitting beams would play, 

 To chase Life's dreary clouds away ; 

 Could the dear Muse of Shakspeare 



blest 

 But breathe its sweetness o'er my breast. 

 My winged soul would upward rise. 

 And like a bird that soars the skies, 

 Fond of her daring pinions, bold. 

 Fond of the space her eyes behold. 

 Would spurn with lighter feet away, 

 And soar amid the ptuple ray, 

 On the stretch'd wings of rapture rise, 

 With thee, O Fancy, by my side. 



J.S.H. 



NEW PATENTS AND MECHANICAL INVENTIONS. 



To John Hughes, of Barking, Essex ; 

 for certain Means of securing the 

 Bodies of the Dead in Coffins. 



THIS invention consists in the use 

 or application of an extra or ad- 

 ditional bottom or bottoms to the coflBn, 

 and fiisteninjj tliereto the body, by 

 means of plates, chains, bars, springs, 

 or straps, of cast or wrought iron, steel, 

 or any kind of metal, joined together or 

 separate, as may be most desirable; 

 .nnd attaching or firmly affixing the said 

 extra bottom or bottoms with the body 

 thus fastened or held down to the usual 

 and real bottom of the cofTm, or to the 

 sides thereof, by means of locks, springs, 

 catches, bolts, nuts, and screws, nails, 

 or rivets, as may be most convenient. 

 He proposes to fasten or hold down the 

 body lo the extra or additional botlorn 

 or bottoms, or sides of the coffin, and 

 the means of fastening tlie same to the 

 usual or real bottom or bottoms and 

 sides. 



Desa-iption of a Life Beacon, hy Mr. 



Geokgk HoLUiTCH, Keeper of the 



Buoys and Beacons of the Port of 



L,ynn, Norfolk. 



Ill July, 1820, he erected a beacon, 

 nnd which has remained uninjured to 

 llio present lime. The main-piece is a 

 tree of English oak of liio best quality, 

 4Hcii(y-sevcn feet long and twelve inches 



square, shod with iron for four feet, and 

 for five feet above filled close with 

 scuppers (short large-headed nails). It 

 was bound round at its upper-end with 

 three strong iron iioops, to prevent it 

 from splitting ; and, being thus prepared, 

 was driven about sixteen feet into the 

 sand, by means of a crane and beetle 

 of thirteen hundred- weight. 



The topmast is made of a good red- 

 wood spar, thirty-seven feet long, and 

 tapering off from twelve inclies, its di- 

 ameter at its base, to six and a half 

 inches, its diameter at the top. It is 

 secured lo the main-piece by two stout 

 iron clasps and screw-bolts; and to the 

 upper of these clasps arc fixed four 

 rings or eyes,- to serve as tiie attachment 

 of as many bars of iron, one and a half 

 inch square and twenty-eight feet long. 

 The lower end of each bar is bolted to 

 a flat block of stone, weighing six 

 hundred-weight. The stone is buried 

 in the sand, and in a month or two gets 

 so firmly embedded by the tremulus 

 motion impressed by the sea on the 

 shaft, tiiat it would form a secure 

 mooring for a vessel of one hundred 

 tons. 



A similar iron clasp, with eye-bolts, 

 is fixed round the top-mast, about eight 

 feet from its summit, and to this arc 

 atlaciicd four chains, each having a 

 block of stone of four hundred weight 



at 



