528 THE CENTURY, 



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A double Crofs-bow, neate, hand- 

 fome and ftrong, to {hoot two Ar 

 rows, either together, or one after 

 the other, To immediately that a 

 Deer cannot run two fteps but, if 

 he mifs 5 of one Arrow, he may be 

 reach d with the other, whether the 

 Deer run forward, fideward, or Hart 

 backward. 



s be missed. 



[A double Cross-bow.~\ The employment of the cross 

 bow still lingered when this was first published in 1663. 

 The invention is so obvious that any particular descrip 

 tion would be superfluous, the whole effect consisting 

 in either shooting the two arrows singly, or together. 



In an article on Cross-bows, in Fosbroke s Encyclo 

 pedia of Antiquities, 1840, it is stated that &quot; In a letter 

 remissory, dated 1420, it is said, 4 lequel Haquinet a 

 chevauchie tendu crenequins et arbalestes a croc ? that 

 is, which Haquinet rode along with crenequins bent, and 

 arbalestes on the hook. By the croc or crook is meant 

 the hook, into which the trigger caught ; of use both in 

 bending the bow and shooting. 



96. 



A way to make a Sea-bank fo firm 

 and Geometrically-ftrong, that a 

 ftream can have no power over it ; 

 excellent likewife to fave the Pillar 

 of a Bridge, being far cheaper and 

 ftronger then Stone-walls. 



