1807.] 
Animals. The late Mr. Wunrer obferved, 
that this genus, had {tomachs compofed 
of four cavities, or bags, through which 
the food paffed before it was prepared to 
form chyle. Mr. Home has examined 
feveral of thefe animals, and lately has 
diflected a bottled-nofed porpoife, which 
had fix of thefe bags conitituting its fto- 
mach; he has fucceeded only in afcer- 
taining the relative dimenfions of thele 
parts, without being able to allign any 
fatisfactory caufe tor fuch an important 
difference of organical ftructure, 
Mr. Kwicur, whofe difcoveries in the 
principles of vegetation have obtained 
for him fo high a ‘reputation, has laid be- 
fore the Royal Society an interefting 
paper on the Bark of Trees. 
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ANTIQU ARIAN SOCIETY. 
/ 
h Antiquarian Society a paper on the 
Origin of the earlieft Race of Britons: in 
which, from a number of facts, he infers 
New Patents lately Enrolled. 
R. GREATHEAD has prefented to the 
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that the firft inhabitants of Britain were 
neither Celts, Scandinavians, nor Gauls, 
but Cantabrians, originally, and directly 
defcended from aboviginal , Spaniards, 
He traced the manners of the people of 
Cornwall, and thofe on the oppolite coatt 
of Brittany, and alfo the diftmét in Ene- 
land, in which he conceived the Canta- 
Puan had originally fettled, whence they 
migrated to Ireland. Ireland, it appears, 
was never vilited by the Romans, and, of 
courfe, its manners and language were 
unknown to them. The fimilarity be- 
tween the Irfh and modern Spaniards of 
Bifcay, the defcendants of the tierce Can- 
tabri, tends to confirm this hypothefis. 
A large ftone ring, taken from the 
finger of ‘Tippoo Saib, was exhibited be-~ 
fore the Society, containing an Arabic 
infcription, which in Enelifh i is, ‘ Domi- 
nien to God, he is the only, the vitto= 
rious.” 
Mr. CartrsLeE 1s chofen Secretary to 
the Society, in the place of Mr. Brann, 
THE NEW PATENTS LATELY ENROLLED, 
Ee 
MR, WILLIAM BELL’s (DERBY), for an 
improved Method of making Sinoothing 
Frons, Plane Irons, and various Edge’ 
Tools. 
PV RNUE articles denominated fmoothing 
irons, fad irons, and flat irons, and 
which are commonly made ufe of for 
ironing wafhed linens, muilins, &c. have. 
been frequently complained of as defec- 
tive in their conftruction. The patentee 
profeffes to obviate thefe defects. Firtt, 
in heating the faid irons they become 
dirty, and require confiderable trouble 
in cleanfing before they can be uted ; 
and fecondly, t they are frequently over- 
heated, fo as to endanver.and fometimes 
to damage the articles on which they are 
ufed. To prevent thefe inconveniences, 
Mr. Bell has invented a thin cafe of feel 
oriron, fitted with a Ipring cr other fal- 
tenings, which fecure it to the iron with 
which it is intended to be ufed. The 
faid cafe being thus completed, the iron 
properly heated is introduced, which be- 
Ing ni ide of thin metal becomes almott 
immediately fufficiently heated for its 
itended purpofe. The handles of the 
irons. made by Mr. Bell are moveable, 
fo prevent them from being ov er-heatec d. 
iis improvements in irons for planes 
and other edged tools, are by making the 
plane iron of any fuitable materi ials, and 
leaving a vacancy which is intended to 
be filleé up by a thin piece of fteel made 
exactly to tit it. Thefe pieces are to be 
foldered together, with foft folder: the 
reafon afligned for the preference of foft 
folder is, that it requires the fmalleft heat 
to bring it into fufion, and caufes the leaft 
injury to the temper of the fteel. The 
{teel may, however, be foldered to the 
iron or metal back in a foft ftate, and 
afterwards hardened. Mr. Bell obferves, 
that “the ufval method of connecting 
fieel and iron, by means of welding, re- 
quires io fevere a heat that it injures the 
quality of the fteel, which by my im- 
provement will be preferved in its beft 
pofiible ftate. By the fame method of 
connecting my fieelto iron or other me- 
tals for plane iroas, fo do L latend ma-= 
nufaciuring chiffels and various other 
edye tools,” 
Sel 
ARCHIBALD EARL OF DONDONALD’s, for 
Improvements in Spinning Mathinery. 
“The j eG) GUNS ey il fays Lord Don- 
donald, ‘* for which pateats have bee: 
granted 
