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try, made of the bark of the Tilia famina folio minore , fmall 

 leav'd Lime or Linden tree, in fame Countrys called Bad ; whence 

 the ropes are alfo called Bafien ropes ; but of thefe no more, the 

 Tree neither growing, nor the ropes being made in this County, but 

 only ufed here. 



120. Of Arts relating to Brutes, I have met with none extra- 

 ordinary concerning the winged Kingdom, but the new fort of boxes, 

 or Colony hives for Bees, flrft invented, I fuppofe, by the Right 

 Reverend Father in God John Wilkins, late Lord Bithop of Che- 

 (ier ; notwithstanding the pretentions of John Gedde Gent, and 

 his feven years experience : for I find one of them fet up in 

 Wadham College Garden (where it ftill remains) when the faid ac- 

 complifh'd Bifhop was Warden there above twenty years fince. 

 For Fijb, I was (hewed the model of a Net contrived by the in- 

 genious Sir Anthony Cope, that feemed likely to catch all found 

 within fuch acompafs. 



i2r. Relating to four footed Beafts , the ingenious Richard 

 Fermorof Tufmore Efq; (hewed me a pretty contrivance to avoid 

 the incumbrance of Oat tubs in Stables, efpecialiy where they are 

 any thing ftreightned in their room, by letting the Oats down from 

 a loft above, out of a vejfel like the Hopper of a Mill, whence they 

 fall into a fqmrepipe let into the wall, of about four inches diago* 

 nal, which comes down into a Cup-board alfo fet into the wall, but 

 with its end fo near the bottom, that there (hall never be above a 

 gallon,or other dcfirable quantity in the cup-board at a time, which 

 being taken away and given to the Horfes, another gallon prefentjy 

 fucceeds ; fo that in the lower part of the Stable where the Horfes 

 frand, there is not one inch of room taken up for the whole pro- 

 vision of Oats ; which contrivance has alfo this further conveni- 

 ence, that by this motion the Oats are kept conftantly faeet (the 

 taking away one gallon moving the whole mafs above) which laigl 

 up any other wife in great quantities grow frequently tnufty. 



122. The fame ingenious Gentleman has alfo applyed the fame 

 contrivance, with fome little alteration, to the feeding of his Swine, 

 which have conftaritly their meat from fuch a veffel like the hopper 

 of a Mill placed over the sly, into which having put a certain 

 quantity of beans, enough to fat fo many Hogs, they continually 

 defcend to about half way down the ily in a large fquare />//><?, 

 which then divides it felf into fix fmaller ones, which terminate 



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