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My father, who had m:icle hiiiifelf mufler 

 of the excellencies and defedis of this pattern, 

 made one from it, with fome improvements. 

 This \yas the firfl which was made in the Dif- 

 tricl, and perhaps the firfl which was made 

 in Eno-land. 



The utility of thefe being feen by fome dif- 

 cerning individuals, feveral others were con- 

 flrufted under my father's direftion. But, 

 notwithftanding many of them were kept in 

 comriion ufe, and vifited as fubjecls of ad- 

 miration, it was fome fifteen or twenty years 

 before they grew into popular eflimation. 



Within the lafl ten or fifteen years, the 

 making of them has been a principal em- 

 ployment of Wrights and carpenters. At pre- 

 fent there is fcarcely any man, whofe farm- 

 ing is confiderable, without a " Machine 

 Fan." 



The Construction of this machine has 

 undergone feveral alterations, and fome fevyr 

 improvements may have been made in it; 

 none of them, however, of moment, ex- 

 cept that of changing the materials of the 

 fails from boards to fheet-iron. Its com- 

 plexnefs is the only bar to its popularity. 



Should 



