sow 



that is, have more holes in it, in proportion as it is fmaller 

 than the roller. In the proportions which have been made 

 ufe of in the above inltance, the roller being twenty-eight 

 inches in diameter, its circumference will be more than feven 

 feet, whereas the cyhnder is but one foot in diameter, there- 

 fore little more than a yard in circumference. Confequently, 

 as the roller will pafs over full feven feet of ground, while 

 the cylinder prefents only three feet of revolving furface, 

 the latter muft be fo much pierced as to allow the feed to 

 fall very freely, otherwife the ground will be but thinly fown, 

 and the bufinefs, of courfe, imperfeftly performed. 



The one-foot cylinder has been already confidered, and 

 fuggefted as being the moil applicable to Imall feeds, and 

 which the confiderations jult Hated feem more fully to con- 

 firm. They likewife fecm to Itrengthen the fuggeilion, that, 

 for white corn, peas, and other fimilar forts of articles, the 

 cylinder would be more fuitable, if it were enlarged, ac- 

 cording to the number of pecks or other meafures required 

 to fow an acre. It is a neceffary caution that, in fowing 

 ■with this implement, the cylinder be never filled too full ; 

 it ought indeed, in no cafe, to be more than three-fifths 

 filled, and, if only filled up to the axis of it, fo much the 

 better. While the feed is putting in, which fhould be done 

 by means of a (hort, broad, tin funnel, the wrapper fliould 

 be pafled under the cylinder to keep it in, as feen in defcrib- 

 ing the tool. 



It is fuggefted further too, that, by previoufly fetting the 

 centre (hares of the implement rather higher than thole to- 

 wards the fides, which may be eafily done by taking out the 

 grooved bar, by unkeying the ftrap by which it is held down 

 into the box near the winch, it may be made to fow on nar- 

 row ridges, which is very neceffary and defirable in different 

 fituations, but it will then require that a fuitable roller fhould 

 be ufed ; or by fettinfr the middle (hares deep, pulling off 

 thofe towards the fides, the implement might be made to 

 work with a common furrow-roller. In either cafe the 

 points and tops of the (hares fhould, it is faid, form a curve 

 correfponding with the (hape of the roller, but more efpe- 

 cially where the ridges are very narrow, and much railed in 

 the crown. 



It is obvious, the inventor fays, that the whole of the 

 above fowing apparatus is capable of being attached to any 

 common well rniAe Jield-rolkr which is of a good fize in the 

 barrel, and fitted into a proper frame, with a feat, and 

 other neceffaries ; and that every part of the broad-caft ma- 

 chinery may be connefted with it at very little expence. 

 Thefe are very important confiderations in fuch forts of 

 tools ; but, beiides, the roller will dill be a roller, and ufeful 

 as fuch ; while the fowing part, being only necedary when 

 that operation is to take place, may at other times either 

 be left at reft, or be altogether removed. 



It is ilatcd in conclufion, that by means of this fowing- 

 roller, the work of fowing, harrowing, and rolling may go 

 on all at one time, and that, by a change of horfcs once in 

 the day, a field of ten acres may be cafily fown and finilhed 

 in that time. That in hot dry feafons, when farmers are 

 under the ncceffity of catching and taking the advantage of 

 fmart (howers, for the (owing of their turnip feed in par- 

 ticular, a tool that is capable of effefting fo much cannot 

 but be highly ufeful. The land will not only be better and 

 more expeditioufly fown, but be left in a more fuitable ftate 

 for preventing the effedts of the weather. It will probably 

 too not be much Icfs beneficial for the purpofes and inten- 

 tions of fowing in other cafes. 



The great power, together with the ready and exlcnfive 

 application of the roller, hold out to the agricultural me- 

 chanic, means which ought not to be overlooked in the con- 



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flruftion of tools and machinery of this nature, as they 

 afford prodigious facility in forming and giving them 

 motion. 



SOWINS, or Sowings, in the manufafture of linen- 

 cloth, are ufed in a rather coarfe and pretty thick but not 

 over thick ftate, by weavers, in dreffing and preparing their 

 yarn of this kind for the loom, or being woven into cloth. 

 It takes away, combines, and hardens, the loofe parts of the 

 threads ox Jlecfings, as they are called, and gives a fort of 

 body to the whole divided parts of the yarn before the ope- 

 ration of weaving begins to be performed, and confequently 

 greatly facilitates the work. In this procefs or pradice the 

 beft flour is likewife fometimes employed in the fame way, 

 as going farther and anfwering better, efpecially for fine 

 cloths. 



SOWLEE, in Geography, a town of Bengal ; 1 7 mile* 

 E. of Boglipour. 



SOWNE, a term ufed in the exchequer ; feeming to be 

 a corruption from the Yrenchfouvenu, remembered. 



Such eltreats and cafualties as the (herift by his induftry 

 cannot get or levy, are faid to be eftreats that foiune not, 

 that is, are not to be remembered, or are not in demand. 

 On the contrary, eftreats that fowne, are fuch as he may 

 gather. 



SOWRAY, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, in the 

 circarof Chanderee ; 40 miles S.S.E. of Chanderee. 



SOWREE, a town of Hindooftan, in Bengal ; 15 mile* 

 N.E. of Jellafore. 



SOXALjE, or Camelobosci, in Ancient Geography, a 

 people of Germany, who inhabited the vicinity of the de- 

 ferts. Ptolemy. 



SOXINI, or SocciNi, Mariano, in Biography, deno- 

 minated the elder, an eminent canoni(t, was born at Siena 

 in 1 40 1. He ftudied firft at his native place, and then in 

 Padua, in which laft univerfity, after he had taken his de- 

 gree, he was for fome years profelfor of the canon law. He 

 then returned to Siena, where he taught as a profedor dur- 

 ing the remainder of his life. He was very intimate with 

 Eneas Sylvius, afterwards pope Pius II., who has written 

 a panegyric upon him in one of his letters in the moll mag- 

 nificent terms, affigning to him almoft utiiverfal proficiency 

 in fcience and the arts, with the greateft excellence of moral 

 charafter. Soxini was fent by the ftate to compliment Syl- 

 vius when he afcended the papal throne, on which occafion 

 he was nominated confiilorial advocate. He died in 1467, 

 leaving behind him a confiderable reputation for learning 

 ?nd integrity. His works, confifting of " Confultations," 

 " Commentaries on the Books of Canon Law," and trafts 

 upon " Legal Subjefts," have been frequently reprinted. 



SoxiNi, or SocciNl, Bartolomeo, a celebrated civilian, 

 fon of the preceding, was born at Siena in 1436. He 

 ftudied the law under different matters at Siena and Bo- 

 logna, and after he had been admitted to a doftor's de- 

 gree he became profeffor of the civil and canon law in 

 his native city. He was, in 1473, invited to Pifa, where 

 he taught both branches of law, and in this city he rc- 

 fidcd twenty years, with fome occafional abfenccs. He 

 took an aftive part in the civil didicntions of Siena, and 

 was, at one time, in the lift of the baniftied citizens. He 

 was employed in einbaffics from the Siencfc to the Florcn- 

 tines, and it is faid he engaged in a military attempt to 

 change the conftitution ot Siena. At Pifa the famoui 

 Jafon del Maino was his rival, and they held frequent public 

 dilputations, at one of which Lorenzo dc Medici wa« an 

 auditor. Jafon being hard prcffcd by the arguments of hi» 

 antagonill, quoted, in his own favour, a text which he had 

 invented tor the occafion. Sokioi, with equal readiuefs, in- 

 vented 



