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hundreds of the attendants, besides the royal pair, and you always find it as full of them as it can hold, These faithful subjects never abandon their charge, even in the last distress; for, whenever I took out the royal chamber, and, as I often did, preserved it for some time in a large glass bowl, all the attendants continued running in one direction round the king and queen, with the . utmost solicitude, some of them stopping on every circuit at the head of the latter, as if to give her some thing. When they came to the extremity of the abdomen, they took the eggs from her, and carried them away, and piled them carefully to gether in some part of the chamber, or in the bowl under, or behind any pieces of broken clay which lay most convenient for the purpose.

Some of these little unhappy creatures would ramble from the chamber, as if to explore the cause of such a horrid ruin and catastrophe to their immense building, as it must appear to them; and, after fruitless endeavours to get over the side of the bowl, return and mix with the crowd that continue running round their common parents to the last. Others, placing themselves along her side, get hold of the queen's vast matrix with their jaws, and pull with all their strength, so as visibly to lift up the part which they fix at; but, as I never saw any effect from these attempts, I never could determine whether this pulling was with an intention to remove her body, or to stimulate her to move herself, or for any other purpose; but, after

many ineffectual tugs, they would desist, and join in the crowd running round, or assist some of those who are cutting off clay from the external parts of the chamber, or some of the fragments, and moistening it with the juices of their bodies, to begin to work a thin arched shell over the body of the queen, as if to exclude the air, or to hide her from the ob servation of some enemy. These, if not interrupted, before the next morning, completely cover her, leaving room enough within for great numbers to run about her.

I do not mention the king in this case, because he is very small in proportion to the queen, not being bigger than thirty of the labourers, so that he generally conceals himself under one side of the abdomen, except when he goes up to the queen's head, which he does now and then, but not so frequently as the rest.

If in your attack on the hill you stop short of the royal chamber, and cut down about half of the building, and leave open some thousands of galle ries and chambers, they will all be shut up with thin sheets of clay before the next morning. If even the whole is pulled down, and the different buildings are thrown into a confused heap of ruins, provided the king and queen are not destroyed or taken away, every interstice between the ruins, at which either cold or wet can possibly en ter, will be so covered as to exclude both, and, if the animals are left undisturbed, in about a year they will raise the building to near its pristine size and grandeur.

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Lists of Patents for Inventions, &c. granted in the Year 1806. From the Repertory of Arts, Manufactures and Agriculture, Vol. 8, Second Series, 1808.

JOHN Syeds, of Fountain Stairs, Rotherhithe-wall, in the county of Surrey, mathematical-instrumentmaker, for a steering amplitude, or azimuth-compass and scale, for finding and working courses of ships. Dated Oct. 7, 1805.

Daniel Desormeaux, of Barking, in the county of Essex, surgeon and apothecary, and Samuel Hutchings, of Ilford, in the said parish of Barking, weaver; for certain improvements in the making and manufacturing of wax, spermaceti, and tallow candles. Dated Oct. 22,1805. Richard Kentish, late captain in the Cambridgeshire militia, but now of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, esquire; for an armourwaistcoat, which is a sure defence against the bayonet, sword, pike, or any pointed instrument, and in many instances, may prevent the wound from a musket-ball. Dated October 30, 1805.

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Joseph Huddart, of Highburyterrace, in the parish of Islington, in the county of Middlesex; for sundry new improvements in the manufacture of large cables, and

cordage in general. Dated October 30, 1805.

Samuel Miller, of Gresse-street, in the parish of St. Pancras, in the county of Middlesex, engineer; for certain improvements on steam. engines. Dated October 30, 1805.

John Hartop, of Brightside, in the parish of Sheffield, in the county of York, iron.master; for certain improvements in the method of preparing malleable iron for the purpose of making the same into bars, sheets, and slit rods, and manufacturing the same also into hoop iron; and for certain improvements in the method of preparing all other malleable metals.

Dated November 7, 1805.

John Trotter, of Soho-square, in the county of Middlesex, esquire ; for a rotary-engine, for applying the powers of fluid: as first movers. Dated November 14, 1805.

William Milton, vicar of Heckfield, in the county of Southampton, M. A.; for a mode of rendering carriages in general, but particularly stage-coaches, more safe than at present, and various other improvements upon such carriages. Dated November 16, 1805.

John Curr, of Sheffield Park, in the parish of Sheffield, in the county of York, gentleman; for a method different from any that has hitherto been invented or known, of laying a

rope, or, in other words, of twisting St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, in the

and forming the strands together that compose the round rope. Dated November 16, 1805.

Andrew Flint, of Gee-street Goswell-street, in the county of Middlesex, mill-wright; for a machine upon an improved construction, which may be used as a steamengine. Dated November 16, 1805. John Delafons, of Threadneedlestreet, in the city of London, watchmaker; for a marine alarum chronometer, for ascertaining the time of ship's log line running out, the time of the watches on ship-board, and many other useful purposes. . Dated November 19, 1805.

George Wyke, of Winsley, in the county of Wilts, esquire; for a method of working pumps of various descriptions, by machinery, whereby much manual labour will be spared. Dated November 19, 1805.

William Pocock, of the parish of St. Paul, Covent-garden, in the county of Middlesex, cabinet-maker and upholsterer for improvements on tables for dining, and other use. Dated November 19, 1805.

Archibald, earl of Dundonald; for certain improvements in machinery on mill-spinning, for the spinning of cotton, wool, silk, hemp, and flax, and substitutes for hemp and flax communicated to him by Thomas Nelson, late of Lambeth, engineer, deceased. Dated Nov. 19, 1805.

Richard Lambert, of Wick Rissington, in the county of Gloucester, gentleman; for an improved thrashing-machine; and also an improved portable windlass, to be worked by one or more horses, particularly useful for drawing or hauling. Dated November 23, 1805.

Richard Brown, of the parish of

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city of London, cabinet-maker ; før certain improvements in the con. struction of several parts of tables, and of various other articles of household furniture, which stand upon, or are supported by, legs ot fect. Dated November 26, 1805.

James Ingram, of Castle-street, is the city of Bristol, grocer: for a method of manufacturing powder. sugar from raw sugar alone, and from syrup of sugar alone, and from the mixtures of raw sugar and syrup of sugar. Dated Nov. 26, 1805.

Samuel Amoss, of Red lion-place, in the parish of St. Sepulchre, in the city of London, china ename ler; for certain improved methods of preparing various enamel colous, and of applying the same so prepar ed, to the ornamenting useful vessels of glass. Dated Nov. 26, 1805.

Joseph Steel, of Stock port, in the county of Chester; for a species of cloths, fustians, calicos, cambricks. lawns, striped cottons, and other articles, manufactured with cotton, wool, and flax, mixed and spaa together. Dated Dec. 17, 1805.

Joseph Fletcher, of Horsley, in the county of Derby, needle-maker; for a machine for raising water. Dated January 23, 1806.

George Barton Alcock, of the city of Kilkenny, in the part of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, called Ireland; for cer tain improvements in lamps. Dated January 23, 1806.

John Dobbs Davies, of New Compton-street, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman; for a saddlebar on an improved construction; which he denominates the motion saddle-bar. Dated January 23, 1806.

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Robert Berriman, of Speen, in the county of Berks, wheelwright; for a machine for preparing and for the reception of seed, which he is confident will prove of the utmost advantage to agriculturists in saving corn, in producing a regular and more abundant crop, and in enabling the farmer, at an easier rate, to keep his land free from all kinds of weeds. Dated January 23, 1806.

William Sampson, of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, wheel. wright; for certain improvements in the application of power, employed mechanically, especially as adapted to the use of crauks and fly-wheels, or other contrivances, producing equivalent or similar effects. Dated February 12, 1806.

John Phillips, of East Stone. house, in the county of Devon, stone-mason and sculptor; for certain improvements in the construc. tion of tinder boxes. Dated February 12, 1806.

John Phillips, of East Stonehouse, in the county of Devon, stone-mason and sculptor; for a chain and apparatus for straight, square, and parallel stone and mar. ble sawing; which chain may be applied to other useful purposes. Dated February 12, 1806.

John Marchall, of Northwick, in the county of Chester, salt pro. prietor, and John Naylor, of the same county, salt proprietor: for a new and improved method or manner of manufacturing and making salt. Dated February 14, 1806.

Thomas Kentish, of Baker-street, north, in the parish of St. Mary-lebone, in the county of Middlesex, esquire; for certain improvements in the construction of machines or engines, applicable to the moving, raking, or lowering of heavy bodies

and weights of all kinds, either upon land, or on board of ships and vessels. Dated February 20, 1805.

John Jones, the younger, of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, tool-maker and die-sinker; for improvements in the mode of manufacturing barrels for fire-arms. Dated February 20, 1806.

John Woodhouse, of the parish of Heyford, in the county of Northampton, engineer; for certain improvements relative to canals. Dated February 20, 1806.

Patrick Whytock, of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, merchant; for an improvement in the manufacture of piece goods, composed of cotton, of flax, or of hemp, or of any mixture or mixtures of two or more of these articles, by which such goods will resist the rotting action of wet or moisture much better than similar fabrics manufactured by the methods in common use. Dated March 8, 1806.

John Curr, of Sheffield park, in the parish of Sheffield, in the county of York, gentleman; for a method, different from any that has hitherto been invented or known, of spinning hemp for mak ing of ropes or cordage. Dated March 8, 1806.

Richard Willcox, of the parish of St. Mary, Lambeth, in the county of Surrey, merchant; for certain machinery for glazing and graining leather, now usually performed by hand. Dated March 8, 1806.

Edward Dampier, Edward Jackson, and James Shackleton, of Primrose-street, in the city of London, manufacturers; for certain machinery for rasping, grating, or reduc ing into small parts or powder, such woods, drugs, and other sub

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tances, for the use of dyers and others, as are not easily to be pulverized by mere percussion. Dated March 12, 1806.

Michael Logan, of Paradisestreet, in the parish of Rotherhithe, in the county of Surrey, engineer; for an entire new system of marine, fort, and field artillery. Dated March 13, 1806.

Charles Robert West, of Ploughcourt, Fetter-lane, in the city of London, optician, and William Bruce, of King's-head-court, Shoelane, in the city of London, opticalturner; for improvements in day or night telescopes, whereby the same will be rendered more portable than they now are. Dated March 18, 1806.

Henry Gove Clough, of Nortonstreet, in the parish of St. Mary-lebone, in the county of Middlesex, surgeon; for improvements in the instruments or apparatus commonly called trusses, which are used for compressing and supporting such parts of the human frame as are or may be ruptured or disposed to protrude. Dated March 21, 1806.

in that part of the united kingdom called Scotland, cutler and surgeon's instrument maker; for a method of manufacturing elastic spring trusses, for ruptures or rupture band. ages. Dated March 26, 1806.

Bracey Clark, of Giltspur-street, in the city of London, Veterinarysurgeon, for improvements upon horse-shoes. Dated March 26, 1806.

Quintin M' Adam, of Anderston, near the city of Glasgow, in the county of Lanark, in that part of the united kingdom called Scotland, manufacturer; for an improved method of dressing yarns for wear. ing, by means of a new and useful machine. Dated March 26, 1806.

William Parr, of Bermondsey new road, in the county of Surrey, gentleman, Richard Bevington, of Gracechurch-street, in the city of London, merchant, and Samuel Be vington, of Grange road, Bermondsey, in the said county of Surrey, leather-dresser; for a machine for splitting hides, skins, pelts, or lea ther, in an improved manner. Dated March 26, 1806.

Francis Place, of Charing-cross, Samuel Miller, of the parish of in the parish of St. Martin in St. Pancras, in the county of Midthe fields, in the county of Mid- dlesex, engineer; for various indlesex, taylor and mercer; for improvements in the working of coal, provements in locks for muskets, pistols, fowling-pieces, carriage guns, and every species of fire arms. Dated March 21, 1806.

Richard Ottley, of Myrtle-hill, near Caermarthen, in Caermarthenshire, esquire; and James Jeans, of Portsmouth, in the county of Hants, ship builder; for improvements in chain-pumps; in the mode of working the same, and in the wells for receiving such pumps; whereby much manual labour may be saved. Dated March 21, 1806.

Joseph Hinchcliffe, of Dumfries,

tin, lead and other mines, by which there will be a great saving of fuel and labour, and many accidents prevented. Dated April 1, 1806.

James Keir, of West Bromwich, in the county of Stafford, esquire; for an improved method of man. facturing white lead. Dated April 3, 1806.

William Henry Lassalle, of the city of Bristol, apothecary; for certain improvements in soap. Dated April 5, 1806.

James Key, of Preston, in the county of Lancaster, machine. maker ;

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