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In
another
apartment
I
was
highly
pleased
with
a
projector
who
had
found
a
device
of
ploughing
the
ground
with
hogs
,
to
save
the
charges
of
ploughs
,
cattle
,
and
labour
.
The
method
is
this
:
in
an
acre
of
ground
you
bury
,
at
six
inches
distance
and
eight
deep
,
a
quantity
of
acorns
,
dates
,
chestnuts
,
and
other
mast
or
vegetables
,
whereof
these
animals
are
fondest
;
then
you
drive
six
hundred
or
more
of
them
into
the
field
,
where
,
in
a
few
days
,
they
will
root
up
the
whole
ground
in
search
of
their
food
,
and
make
it
fit
for
sowing
,
at
the
same
time
manuring
it
with
their
dung
:
it
is
true
,
upon
experiment
,
they
found
the
charge
and
trouble
very
great
,
and
they
had
little
or
no
crop
.
However
it
is
not
doubted
,
that
this
invention
may
be
capable
of
great
improvement
.
I
went
into
another
room
,
where
the
walls
and
ceiling
were
all
hung
round
with
cobwebs
,
except
a
narrow
passage
for
the
artist
to
go
in
and
out
.
At
my
entrance
,
he
called
aloud
to
me
,
"
not
to
disturb
his
webs
.
"
He
lamented
"
the
fatal
mistake
the
world
had
been
so
long
in
,
of
using
silkworms
,
while
we
had
such
plenty
of
domestic
insects
who
infinitely
excelled
the
former
,
because
they
understood
how
to
weave
,
as
well
as
spin
.
"
And
he
proposed
further
,
"
that
by
employing
spiders
,
the
charge
of
dyeing
silks
should
be
wholly
saved
;
"
whereof
I
was
fully
convinced
,
when
he
showed
me
a
vast
number
of
flies
most
beautifully
coloured
,
wherewith
he
fed
his
spiders
,
assuring
us
"
that
the
webs
would
take
a
tincture
from
them
;
and
as
he
had
them
of
all
hues
,
he
hoped
to
fit
everybody
's
fancy
,
as
soon
as
he
could
find
proper
food
for
the
flies
,
of
certain
gums
,
oils
,
and
other
glutinous
matter
,
to
give
a
strength
and
consistence
to
the
threads
.
"
There
was
an
astronomer
,
who
had
undertaken
to
place
a
sun-dial
upon
the
great
weathercock
on
the
town-house
,
by
adjusting
the
annual
and
diurnal
motions
of
the
earth
and
sun
,
so
as
to
answer
and
coincide
with
all
accidental
turnings
of
the
wind
.
I
was
complaining
of
a
small
fit
of
the
colic
,
upon
which
my
conductor
led
me
into
a
room
where
a
great
physician
resided
,
who
was
famous
for
curing
that
disease
,
by
contrary
operations
from
the
same
instrument
.
He
had
a
large
pair
of
bellows
,
with
a
long
slender
muzzle
of
ivory
:
this
he
conveyed
eight
inches
up
the
anus
,
and
drawing
in
the
wind
,
he
affirmed
he
could
make
the
guts
as
lank
as
a
dried
bladder
.
But
when
the
disease
was
more
stubborn
and
violent
,
he
let
in
the
muzzle
while
the
bellows
were
full
of
wind
,
which
he
discharged
into
the
body
of
the
patient
;
then
withdrew
the
instrument
to
replenish
it
,
clapping
his
thumb
strongly
against
the
orifice
of
then
fundament
;
and
this
being
repeated
three
or
four
times
,
the
adventitious
wind
would
rush
out
,
bringing
the
noxious
along
with
it
,
(
(
like
water
put
into
a
pump
)
)
,
and
the
patient
recovered
.
I
saw
him
try
both
experiments
upon
a
dog
,
but
could
not
discern
any
effect
from
the
former
.
After
the
latter
the
animal
was
ready
to
burst
,
and
made
so
violent
a
discharge
as
was
very
offensive
to
me
and
my
companion
.
The
dog
died
on
the
spot
,
and
we
left
the
doctor
endeavouring
to
recover
him
,
by
the
same
operation
.
I
visited
many
other
apartments
,
but
shall
not
trouble
my
reader
with
all
the
curiosities
I
observed
,
being
studious
of
brevity
.
I
had
hitherto
seen
only
one
side
of
the
academy
,
the
other
being
appropriated
to
the
advancers
of
speculative
learning
,
of
whom
I
shall
say
something
,
when
I
have
mentioned
one
illustrious
person
more
,
who
is
called
among
them
"
the
universal
artist
.
"
He
told
us
"
he
had
been
thirty
years
employing
his
thoughts
for
the
improvement
of
human
life
.
"
He
had
two
large
rooms
full
of
wonderful
curiosities
,
and
fifty
men
at
work
.
Some
were
condensing
air
into
a
dry
tangible
substance
,
by
extracting
the
nitre
,
and
letting
the
aqueous
or
fluid
particles
percolate
;
others
softening
marble
,
for
pillows
and
pin-cushions
;
others
petrifying
the
hoofs
of
a
living
horse
,
to
preserve
them
from
foundering
.
The
artist
himself
was
at
that
time
busy
upon
two
great
designs
;
the
first
,
to
sow
land
with
chaff
,
wherein
he
affirmed
the
true
seminal
virtue
to
be
contained
,
as
he
demonstrated
by
several
experiments
,
which
I
was
not
skilful
enough
to
comprehend
.
The
other
was
,
by
a
certain
composition
of
gums
,
minerals
,
and
vegetables
,
outwardly
applied
,
to
prevent
the
growth
of
wool
upon
two
young
lambs
;
and
he
hoped
,
in
a
reasonable
time
to
propagate
the
breed
of
naked
sheep
,
all
over
the
kingdom
.
We
crossed
a
walk
to
the
other
part
of
the
academy
,
where
,
as
I
have
already
said
,
the
projectors
in
speculative
learning
resided
.
