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"Tis Love, tweet innocent, thy bofom robs, 
*Tis Love, thy ftate of difcontent has nade. 
Ah! de not murmur at thy haplefs fate; _ 
A heart with correfponding feelings fraught 
May fhortly blefs thee, and a happier ftate 
Difvel thofe fears that eager fancy wrought. 
In vain will Spring’senliv’ning beauties bloom 
Yo him wholonely feeks the verdant grove, 
When filent thought depi¢ts his mournful 
doom, | 
To pine for ever, ftranger to his love. 
Oh! yet when circling pleafures round me 
grow, ” 
- When all creation owns affection’s fway, 
Breathe, breathe my reeds, the raptur’d trains 
' fhall flow, ; 
*Tis Nature fpeaks, let all her fons obey. 
. ae F, LANTAFF, 
"NEW PATENTS, 
Mr. CHAPMAN’s, FOR @ MACHINE 
FOR MAKING RoPEs. 
N March 1798, a patent was granted - 
to Mr. WILLIAM CHAPMAN, of 
Newcatftle on Tyne, for a method of lay- 
ing, twifting, or making ropes or cordage. 
In the common method of making 
cordage, a walk, or rope ground, is re- 
quilite, of an equal length with the rope 
or cable intended to be made; at each end 
of which ground, are hooks, revolving 
round their axis by means of various ma- 
chinary, to which the yarns or ftrands of 
“which the rope is formed are faftened, and 
by which they are twifted together. By 
the machinery of the patentee, however, 
a much fhorter fpace is requifite, and the 
whole procels of the conftru®tion of a ca- 
ble from the very yarn, is carried on in 
recular uninterrupted fuccefiion, by the 
fame machine. 
A cable is compofed of three ftrands 
or ropes twifted together, and each of 
thefe ropes is again in like manner com- 
pofed of three ftrands or cords ; each cord 
confiiting-of a.certain number of yarns. 
A, number of coils of yarn is therefore 
procured, fufhcient for the conftruction of 
a cable, and of a proper length, each of 
which 1s fixed on a feparate revolving 
axis. ‘The yarns, as they are delivered 
off the reel, are divided into parcels, each 
parcel containing threads fufficient for 
the contruction of a rope: the parcels of 
threads are then introduced into an equal 
mumber of fhatts, which revolving on 
their own axis, twift the threads into 
nine ropes, sailing them up at the fame 
time into reund bexes3> each of thefe 
boxes is then fet in motion, and gradually 
delivers out itsrope; the ropes being 
thea divided into three parcels of three 
Original Poctry....New Patents. 
Sonnet to Evenine. 
“~ By KR. CaRrrisue. 
VENING ! I woo thy dim oblivious fhade, 
ee twilight fpreads her veil of mifty 
ue 5 
When day’s bright garih tints begin to fade, 
And from the diftant hills, the vapours bluey 
In wreaths fantaftic, beauteoufly afcend; | 
And tag the humid earth exhales the 
Wy 
To cool, fequefter’d haunts, my fteps I bend ; 
While in the weft, where the bright fun 
withdrew, / 
Still lingers many a ftreak of crimfon glow, 
‘» And tints the azure face of {preading lake, 
There blending foftly into fhadows gray : 
Thro’ the o’ergrown, and folitary brake, 
In penfive mood, I often love to ftray, 
More than amid the fcenes of pomp and 
fhew. 
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ropes each, are introduced imto three ré- 
volving fhafts, by which they are twift- 
ed into three fhroud laid repes, and coiled 
up as before. The lait procefs is perfedtly 
fimilar to the foregoing one, by which the 
three fhroud laid-ropes ave twitted: into a 
three ftrand cable. All thefe operations 
may be carried on atthe fame time in 
Mifferent parts of the cable, and the whole 
“machinery may be worked by a fingle 
principle of motion. 
Mr. HoweELl’s MACHINE FOR HOL- 
LOWING OR BORING WATERPIPES. 
In May a patent was granted to Mr. 
Jouxn Howe, of Olweftry, Salop, 
coalmafter, for an improved machine for 
the purpofe of hollowing or boring wooden 
water-pipes, or aqueducts. 
The ufual method of boring is by an 
augre, or fimilar inftrument, which cuts 
cut the inner part, of the wood in chips 
or fhavings. The new method is by ufing 
a hollow iron cylinder with a circular faw, 
by which means a folid cylinder of wood 
is procured, of nearly the fame diameter 
as the bore of the pipe, inflead of cutting 
it up into ulelefs fhavings. 
Mr. BELL’S, FOR A METHOD OF MAK- 
ING NEEDLEs, Bopxins, &c. 
In September a patent was granted ta 
Mr. WitLiaM BELL, of Walfall, Staf- 
ford, for a method of making needles, 
bodkins, fith-hooks, knitting-pias, net- 
ting-needles, and {ail-needles. 
This new method confilts in cafting 
the above-mentioned articles in moulds 
of fand or iron, inftead of making them 
of wire. ‘The fteel, for this purpofe, is 
to be purified by ftirring it when melted, 
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with a mixture of charcoal-duit and lime, 
6r common falt, 
