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*Directions for unfixing the Forge, and packing it in the Case. Remove the several parts, and place them on the ground contiguous, reversing the order observed in set. ting up the forge for use, that is to say, unfix the vice hitch off the coal or water-trough 11 remove the rockstaff from the bearing-bar 12; raise the hearth from the shouldered studs s, and withdraw it from the notches r ; withdraw the support given by the turn buttons, and bring the back, and fire-pan of the hearth together, as shewn by A, Fig. 9; raise the nozzel of the bellows from the brace S, and withdraw the gudgeons from under the cleats or brackets on 5 and 6: take off the bearing bar 12, for the rock-staff, and return it into the tool-box 10; lift pp. and remove the uprights 5 and 6, remove the drift keys, and push back the bolts, when the brace will slip from its place, and the lid fall back; place the drift keys and bolts in the tool-box; remove one half of the lid, for greater convenience, and replace in the case the several parts as numbered; that is to say, 1, the anvil; 2, bellows; 3, sledge-hammer; 4, rock-staff; 5 and 6, uprights or standards; 7, anvil-block; 8, brace; 9, hearth; 110, tool box; 11, coal or water-trough. Replace the part of the lid, removed for convenience, and close both parts of sit; pass the rod or bolt g through the staples; on the under side of each half of the lid press down the hasp, and turn the rotatory staple over it. A padlock may be passed through the staple, if this kind of security is desirable.

OBSERVATIONS BY THE PATENTEE.

The room occupied, by a smith's forge, and the expenses of construction, have heretofore prevented their being employed in many situations where the occasional use of a forge would be extremely desirable.

The portable forge removes these objections.

This forge, and all the requisite tools, are comprised in a case of small dimensions; and may be adjusted for work in a few minutes.

Country gentlemen and agriculturists will find it a valuable acquisition, as the forge may be used at home, or, with a supply of materials, may be carried in a common one-horse-cart, to any place where it may be wanted...

The injury arising to hunters and other valuable horses from exposure, while shoeing in a cold shed; the time that is occupied in sending them to a distance; and the various ill consequences that often result from delay, and the attendance of servants at a forge, are too well known to need expatiating on: with cart horses the time thus occupied must either be taken from the usual hours of work, or from those allowed for feeding; in either case, there is an absolute loss.

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Besides, the smiths'-work. in a country residence, or farm-house, consists principally of repairs to articles that cannot be spared from use without inconvenience, or carried to a distance without difficulty.

The advantages of a forge that can be used wherever it may be required, must therefore be evident.a

In racing establishments, the forge may be used at the stable door, or on the race course. Race horses being peculiarly liable to injury from exposure, often have their shoes and plates applied without that accurate adjustment to the size and shape of the foot, so essentially requisite, VOL. XXXV.-SECOND SERIES. Y y but

but which cannot be obtained unless a forge is a forge is on the spot *.

29tuens M. bao zigis W to toeiduê Ship-owners will find it more convenient than any of the forges heretofore in use. A smith's forge, especially in long voyages, is an indispensible article of equipment: but those at present in use are either in detached parts, liable to be mislaid and lost, whereby the forge may be rendered incomplete when most wanted, or are much more weighty, "bulky, and costly, than the patent portable forge; which, when not in use, occupies but little more room than a seaman's chest, is perfectly complete within itself, and may be set up and used on deck, or landed for that purpose. Its adoption into vessels not usually supplied with a forge will save much expense, and prevent most of the delay that is occasioned both in home and in foreign harbours, by waiting the convenience of a native blacksmith at a distant forge.

Merchants will find it a profitable article for exporta tion to a foreign market, and especially to infant colonies and settlements.

19Artizans and mechanics generally, whether working for amusement or profit, will find it convenient to use this forge in situations too various to be enumerated. benim.

These forges are used in the stud of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, and may be seen at the Veterinary College. 1 notesbanc. andilsb

Manufactory, Percy Mews, Rathbone Place. sesi ves gailosity to plusif. b-28g

-3 See a work on the Diseases of Horses Feet, and the different Modes of Shoeing, by Mr. Goodwin, Veterinary Surgeons to the Prince Regent, just published by Longman and Cool) ni deluso)

First Report of the Commissioners appointed to consider the Subject of Weights and Measures.

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May it please your Royal Highness,220vov gnol ar bodociab ut todie 918 9ẹt n. Josera Jo scodt to E the Commissioners appointed by your Royal Highness, for the purpose of considering how far it may be practicable and advisable to establish, within his Majesty's dominions, a more uniform system of weights and measures, having obtained such information as we have been able to collect, beg leave to submit with all bumility the first results of our deliberations. * babas! bol. We have procured for the better consideration of the subject referred to us, an abstract of all the statutes relating to weights and measures, which have been passed in the united kingdoms from the earliest times; and we have obtained from the County Reports, lately published by the Board of Agriculture, and from various other sources, a large mass of information respecting the present state of the customary measures employed in different parts of the united kingdom. We have also mined the standard measures of capacity kept in the exchequer, and we have inquired into the state of the standards of length of the highest authority. Upon, a deliberate consideration of the whole of the system at present existing, we are impressed with a sense of the great difficulty of effecting any radical changes to so considerable an extent as might in some respects be desirable; and we therefore wish to proceed with great caution in the suggestions which we shall venture to propose.

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any sufficient reason for altering those which are at present generally einployed. There is no practical advantage in having a quantity commensurable to any original "quantity existing, or which may be imagined to exist in nature, except as affording some little encouragement to its common adoption by neighbouring nations; but it is scarcely possible that the departure from a standard once 'universally established in a great country, should not produce much more labour and inconvenience in its in»ternal relations, than it could ever be expected to save in the operations of foreign commerce and correspondence, which always are and always must be conducted by persons to whom the difficulty of calculation is comparatively inconsiderable, and who are also remunerated for their trouble, either by the profits of their commercial concerns, or by the credit of their scientific acquirements.-. quis. The sub-divisions of weights and measures at present employed in this country, appear to be far more convenient for practical purposes than the decimal scale, which might perhaps be preferred by some persons for ¿making calculations with quantities already determined. But the power of expressing a third, a fourth, andoa sixth of a foot in inches, without a fraction, is a peculiar Padvantage in the duodecimal scale; and for the operations of weighing and of measuring capacities, the continual division by two, renders it practicable to make up any given quantity with the smallest possible number of standard weights or measures, and is far preferable in this respect to any decimal scale; we would, therefore, recommend that all the multiples and sub-divisions of the standards to be adopted, should retain the same relative proportions to each other as are at present în general use. V4. The most authentic standard of length which are now in existence, being found upon a minute examina

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