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before they began to exert their rage in mutual destruction. Nothing 

 was to be seen but universal carnage ; and in a few days there 

 remained only fourteen, which had killed and devoured all the rest. 

 He also enclosed in a glass vessel a female scorpion big with young, 

 and she was observed to 'devour them as soon as they were brought 

 forth ; only one of the number escaped the general destruction by tak- 

 ing refuge on the back of the old one ; and this parricidal offspring of 

 an unnatural mother soon avenged the cause of its brethren by killing 

 its cruel parent. These observations demonstrate the propriety of the 

 scriptural metaphors, which exhibit the scorpion as the lively emblem 

 of finished malignity. 





ED SOWER. 



CORN PLANTER. 



Jj SOWER AND CORN PLANTER. All implements 

 tlmt can well perform by machinery and horse-power the labor re- 

 quired on a farm, and heretofore done by hand, add much to the 

 elevation of agriculture. Such implements are as important to the 

 farmer as improved mechanism and steam are to the mechanic. To 

 save labor and create dispatch are the great objects of attainment in 

 rendering any occupation productive of profit. If a farmer can be 

 enabled to accomplish in one day what he had formerly done in six 

 days ; or if he has become enabled to effect by machinery and horse 

 power aided by his own hands, what others do in the same time by 

 the occupancy of six men, it is clear that he is receiving far better 

 remuneration for his services than they are ; probably three times as 

 much. To sow small seeds, especially in field culture, such as car- 



