26s Ne'iv Vuhllcations. 



Fig. 4. Thefe peftles or kneaders ar,e let into the upper 

 crofs, and kept fatl by means of horizontal bolts, Y,Y, fig. 2» 



Z, two arms, each twelve feet in length, to the extremity 

 of which are fufpended the apparatus to which the harnefs 

 for the horfes is attached. 



Fig. 3. This figure of the cylinder in the centre of the tub, 

 from which the parts were detached in the explanation of 

 Fig. 2, is drawn on a fcale double to that of the other figures 

 to render it more diilin6l. 



Fig. 4. Plan of the upper crofs above explained ; where is 

 feen, by the punftured circular fegments, the path defcribed 

 by the kneaders in their revolution, the external angles of 

 vhich are covered by each other about eight lines, in order 

 that, fucdeeding each other in their circular progrefs, they 

 may each take up a fmall portion of the pafte which the pre- 

 ceding has kneaded. 



NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



The Geographical Sjjhm of Herodotus examined and ^x- 

 flaincd, &,c. By James Rennell, F.R.S. &<;. 

 l^Jicol, Pall-Mall, 1800: 4to. 767 Pages. 



^Y the imperfection of aftronomy, the comparative in- 

 frequency of the mutual intercourfe of nations, the want of 

 the compafs, the narrownefs of the fphere of knowledge and 

 civility, and by various other caufes, the antients were long 

 hindered Irom making any confiderable proficiency in geo- 

 graphical fcience. 



The writings of Herodotus, Strabo, Paufanias, Xenophon, 

 Caefar, Arrian, Pliny, the Roman itineraries, and the great 

 ■work of Ptolomy, contain the principal part of thofe fails in 

 anticnt geography which have been preferved for our in- 

 formation. 



They are, though imperfect-, yet, for many reafons, highly, 

 intereliing. The particulars of place, as of time, render \.h.<^ 

 other faits of hiftory more authentic and more capable <if 

 ip}prcnuig the imagination. Au acquaigitance with the 



fcenes^ 



