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Among the many kinds of food which are given 
Masintindiceances of sheti fish is one of the most whole- 
some and abundant; and such is its powerful influence 
on , that it is y allowed that the empire 
of owes the immense number of its inhabitants 
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part of the bi 
FIS 
elevated upon the onter- 
most by a rope and pulley, if necessary by the aid of 
a windlass. The Sender consists of two square tubes 
and a square beam, the first square tube containing the 
second, and the second containing the square beam. 
All these aye supported in a vertical position by four 
legs, the lower extremity of the first or outer square 
tube resting on the ground. By means of a pulley 
moved by a windlass, the second square tube can be 
elevated upon the first, and the square beam upon the 
second square .tube, to the height required. About 
four or five feet scores dar ces square beam is 
fixed a form, upon which the fireman stands while 
he is raised to the height for the purpose 
of directing the pipe of the engine, the end of which is 
fixed upon an universal joint on the top of the beam, 
so that the fireman has no weight to support, but is 
in directing the pipe to the proper 
- i one rgrabcagrnnegy the 
magistrates ve ordered ese i 
nious machines to be constructed for the use of the 
town, and we trust every other town in Scotland will 
follow their example. of the ladder when 
about 42 feet long will not exceed £5; that of the 
elevator £13 or £14, The elevator may be applied to 
many other ; and Mr Lamb pi also to 
i y pecan may raise himself, 
» An account of a fire which supports itself, 
will be found in the Acta Petropolitana, vol.i, p. 1. 
See also ’3 Theatrum Machi: m, tab. 54, 57 ; 
Emerson’s Mechanics, 228; Varcourt, Mem. Acad. Par. 
1761, Hist. 158; Collins, American Transactions, tom. 
iv, or of Arts, vol. xv. p. 25; Audibert, 
Mem. de Institut. tom. iv. or Repertory, vol, i. p. 439, 
I. FP. 
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FIRST, in Music, sometimes implies the first, and 
sometimes the second chromatic of the scale: 
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its last stroke. 
astonishing quantities of fish with which they Fisheries. 
— i however, we rehend, may ——~ 
boast of a greater and choier ‘arety than even Chi — 
na; for, out of about four h species, a3 de« 3 
scribed by Linneus, we can enumerate nearly one 
and fifty to be inhabitants of our own waters, 
and almost all these are esculent. 
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herring, with their numerous con- 
salmon... These, when pickled,or 
ied, find at all times a neacly: YORE in the European 
continent, or West India islan For the other kinds 
which we have not here specified, there is always a de« 
mand, either as fresh, green, or cured fish, for home 
