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county under obfervation being the only one 

 in which its ufe has been eflablillied in com- 

 mon PRACTICE, it merits in this place parti- 

 cular notice. 



We are probably indebted to the Chinefe, 

 or other eaftern nation, for the invention of 

 this machine. I have feen it upon an India 

 paper drawn with fufficient accuracy, t(3fhe\v 

 that thedraughtimanwas intimately acquaint- 

 ed with the uics of it. The Dutch, to whom 

 the invention has been afcribed, imported it, 

 in all probability, from the Eaft Indies. Be 

 this as it may, it indifputably came from 

 Holland into this country. 



Its liril introduftion into the Vale w'as by 

 a gentleman of this neighbourhood, abont 

 five- and -thirty years ago. But the introducer 

 committing this complex machine to the care 

 of fervants, without paying attention to it 

 himfclf, it was, as might be expedled, foon 

 throv.n afide as ufclcfs. 



Some time afterwards, however, it fell in- 

 to the hands of a fenfible fubftantial yeoman ; 

 , who, wi;a the afllitance of a friend, dlicover- 

 ^d icb uftfulnefb, and reduced it to pra(5tice. 



