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brought. Some portion of it was taken to pieces, and the whole 

 of the arrangements shown, which the farmers present displayed 

 an eager anxiety to investigate, and many were the questions pro- 

 posed? and satisfactory answered by the talented inventor. 



We should mention that the undulation of the land does not impede 

 its operations in the least — as it was well observed by a gentleman 

 present, that where a cart could travel there this machine could also 

 go, and' complete its design. No previous acquaintance with its prin- 

 ciple is necessary to be able to guide its operation, as was shown by 

 Mr. Neame, Jr. who mounted the platform and discharged the functions 

 appertaining to the party who removes the corn from the machine after 

 it is cut, with the greatest ease and precision. Indeed the most 

 unqualified approval was given by the gentlemen present, to the 

 applicability of the reaping machine to the purposes for which 

 it is designed. We have thus entered into minute particulars, because 

 this is the first opportunity we have had of witnessing the results 

 of such an experiment, attended as it was with every degree of satis- 

 faction. Lord Sondes gave an order for one of the machines, and 

 we understand that three or four orders were given in the course 



of the day. ^ t- u 



At the dinner which followed, the chairman gave " Sir John Tylden 

 and the visitors." 



Sir John Tylden, as a member as well as a visitor, replied to the 

 toast, and in a jocular strain animadverted on the suffering of the 

 farmers of Faversham, who were determined, like a celebrated regi- 

 ment in the service, to " die hard." He alluded to the reaping machine 

 of Mr. Hussey, which he characterized in contradistinction to that 

 of Mr. M'Cormick's and all others, as the universal reaping machine, 

 of which he spoke in highly approving terms, and passed a warm 

 eulogium on its talented "inventor, and the country he represented, 

 which in the space of 8o years had risen from a wilderness to her now 

 exalted position, and proud of her Anglo-Saxon blood. 



