Contents . 
No. Page 
51. A Treatise on the cultivation of the Vine, and the me- 
thod of making Wines. By C. Chaptal. . . .401 
52. A inode of conveying intelligence from a reconnoitring par- 
ty. In a letter from a correspondent, to W. Nicholson, Esq. 447 
53. Account of a machine for performing the thread-work 
in Shoe-making in a standing; posture ; contrived, and 
for many years constantly used by Thomas Holden, 
Shoemaker, &x. ........ 448 
54* Description of a machine for the use of shoemakers. By 
Mr, Thomas Parker. . . . . . . .452 
55. Description of an improved File for receipts and letters. 
By Richard White, Esq. of Essex-Street. . . 453 
56. Description of Mr. Davis’s improved Machine for paint- 
ers and glaziers. ........ 454 
57. Agenda, or a collection of observations and researches, 
the results of which may serve as the foundation for 
a theory of the earth. By M. De Saussure. . . 456 
58. List of Patents . . . . . 473 
The following Engravings occur in this volume . 
L Head of Lavoisier. 
2. Engraved title page. 
3. Instruments for making Gun- 
flints. 
4. Moveable table for engravers. 
5. Vignette — Steam boat. 
6. Swedish stove. 
7. Blasting rocks under water. 
8. Head of Franklin. 
9. Improved Jury-masts, See. 
10. Improved capstan. 
11. Furnace for the manufacture 
of gilt buttons. 
12. Etching with fluoric acid. 
15, Portable bridge. 
14. Signals by Are. 
15. Ventilator for corn. 
16. Bed &c. for the sick and 
wounded. 
17. Vignette — Architecture. 
18. To obviate the lifting of ships. 
19. Camp telegraph. 
20. Homograph. 
21. Nootli’s apparatus improved, 
22. Improved letter file. 
23. Head of sir I. Newton. 
24. Machine for glaziers Sec, 
25. Flippograph. 
26. Machine for Shoemakers, 
27. Do, Do. 
