402 Alarm Belly Garden Scraper, and large Sycamore. 



for the Gardener's Magazine, as several burglaries have of late 

 been committed in this county, and in different other counties, 

 causing great alarm to the inhabitants where they have been 

 perpetrated, and the adoption of various plans for the protection 

 of property and life. 



The following plan I am inclined to think might be adopted 

 at a very trifling expense, and would give an alarm to the 

 neighbourhood. A slight inspection of the sketch (Jig. 38.), which 



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Fig. 38. Section of a House fitted with an Alarm Bell. 



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is a section of a house, will make it easily understood, b repre- 

 sents a bell fixed upon the top of the roof. A wire is to be fastened 

 on the lower part of the tongue of the bell, and to pass over a 

 small wheel to the ring 1. To this ring a number of wires may 

 be fixed, which pass under the small wheels 2 2, and are car- 

 ried on over the wheels 3 3, down into any of the rooms of the 

 house, as at 5 5, &c. ; so that if any person should hear any one 

 breaking into the house, he has only to seize hold of the wire, 

 and pull it in the same way as a room bell, which will set the 

 tongue of the bell in motion by means of the spring 4, which is 

 fixed under the roof-tree. It is well known that a bell worked 

 in this way will send the sound to a considerable distance ; and 

 there can be no doubt that if Mr. Tongue had had it at the 



