AGRICULTURE. 



our sickles ; others for cutting wheat and barley near the gfdund, 

 like our reaping-hooks; 



In the south of Gaulj Pliny informs us they had invented a 

 reaping-machine. From his description this machine must 

 have borne a considerable resemblance to that used in Suffolk 

 for cropping the heads off clover left for seed, and not unlike 

 other modern attempts at an engine of this description. There 

 were threshing-implements for manual labor, and for being 

 drawn by horses ; and some for striking off the ears of grain, 

 like what are called rippling-combs, for combing off the capsules 

 of newly pulled flax. A variety of other instruments for clean- 

 ing grain, and for the wine and oil press, are mentioned, but too 

 obscurely to admit of description. 



