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both food and drink : the next morning I had her turned 

 for a few hours to grass, which she began to cat ; and frorn 

 the incHnation of her head and neck whilst eatino-, a most 

 considerable discharge of suppurated matter came from her 

 nostrils. She, however, daily recovered : the suppuration 

 from her nostrils soon disappeared ; but the discharge from 

 the wound in the neck continued in a considerable degree, 

 by reason of the seton I had put into it, and which I further 

 encouraged by the application of warm stupings twice a day. 

 The animal, in the course of one w-eek from tlie time of the 

 operation, recovered perfectly, and is now as well as ever 

 she was. I am, dear sir. 



Your most obedient servant, 



John Pollock. 

 Rev. Dr. Lyster, &c. &c. 



LVIII. Description of Mr. David Charles's Machine 

 for laying Land level. By Lieutenant- Colonel Hardy *. 



1-^VERY new invention that lessens the expense of manual 

 labour must become an object to your society ; I therefore 

 beg leave to inclose the plan of an instrument for levelling 

 ground, used by me this last season. Its application is 

 simple, and its success so evident, that two neiglibouring 

 farmers borrowed it, and used it in the same manner. 



Should the society consider it worth adopiinar, and that 

 the sketch accompanying this letter is not sufficiently clear, 

 I shall with great pleasure send a model to then- repository. 

 I have the honour to be 



Your most obedient servant, 

 V%'astmead Langhorne. CHrmar- J .j y y j, „ J-] ^ p „ y 



theiiihire, Jan. 5, 180J. 



J\Ir. Charles Taylor. 



This simple machine, which is the invention of my 

 steward, and of which I liave seen nothing similar, ap- 

 pears to me necessary, even in the most fcrtlie parts of 

 England, where the new system of drill husbandry has 

 been introduced, or even where 'there is any attention to 



• From TTan:aili.oas of the Sbtictii of /Iris, &c vi.l. xx\. Tiie silver medal 

 •f the society was \otcd to Mr. Cliarles for this iiweniioii ; , lid the ilianks 

 of the society V. tie given to lieut(;n;.iU-colorel Hardy fur hi; coiimunica- 

 tion, and for a model of tie machine. 



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