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Apparatus for Driving 
or five inches diameter, in the centre of each side the 
cheese, which, as long as it is afterwards kept, is, or 
should be, turned daily, and rubbed three times a week 
in summer and twice in winter. Scraping the rind 
should be rendered unnecessary by frequent cleanings. 
In a warm room the coat will be easily prevented from 
rising. These cheese-rooms are commonly placed over 
the cow-houses, and this is done with a view to obtain 
that moderate and necessary degree of temperature so 
essential to the ripening of cheese, to which the heat 
arising from the cattle underneath is supposed very much 
to contribute. The most desirable covering for a clieese- 
room, as contributing to that temperature so much de- 
sired, is thatch, for reasons that must be obvious. Be- 
fore the cheese is brought into the rooms, the floors are 
mostly well littered with what the farmers here call snid~ 
die , though wheat straw is frequently made use of for this 
purpose, but the knots of it are apt to leave an impres- 
sion on the cheese. The afterneath of grass well dried 
seems to be a good substitute for sniddle. 
No. 83. 
Description of an Apparatus of Tabes for facilitating the 
driving of Copper Bolts into Ships. By Mr. Richard 
Phillips.* 
(With an engraving.) 
MR. Richard Phillips, of Bristol, in several letters 
sent to the Society, states, that he had invented a me- 
* Nicholson, vol. 3, p. 36. From the Transactions of the Society for the En„ 
couragement of Arts , & c. for 1801. — The Society adjudged a reward of forty 
guineas to the inventor. Models are in their repository. 
