Un récit descriptif et historique des machines hydrauliques et autres pour lever l'eau, anciennes et modernes : avec des observations sur divers sujets liés aux arts mécaniques: Y compris le développement progressif du moteur à vapeur . son Briaeus était un exemple; mais quand leur nature artificielle est devenue connue, ils ont mis des formes moins redoutables, leur efficacité dépend alors plus de ce qu'ils ont fait que de la façon dont ils ont regardé. Dans une époque relativement moderne, hoi*ever, a atteint beaucoup de beauté, si nous pourrions juger de l'oneon le follovvintr patje. L'âge auquel l'échantillon figure dans le ne

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A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water, ancient and modern : with observations on various subjects connected with the mechanic arts: including the progressive development of the steam engine . his Briareus wasan example; but when their artificial nature became known they put onless formidable shapes, their efficacy then depending more on what theydid than how they looked. In comparatively modern epoch.s theynever, hoi*ever, attained much beauty, if we might judge of the oneon the follovvintr patje. The age to which the specimen figured in the next cut belonged isunknown. It and No. 2S9 are from a Latin folio published in Paris in153), containing Yegetius on Military Machinery and Institutions, Elianon Tactics, Frontinus on Strategems, and the Book of Modestus onMilitary Affairs ;—collated from Ancient coiWce^hx BfDKUS, the celebratedPrench critic. Attached to, and paged with Yegetius, are one; hundi-edand twenty folio illustrations, rudely executed on wood. They are coptes of those of the old German translation to which we have fe(|i;entlj &80 Ancient Fighting EoUpile. referred, with the exception of a couple of reduced fac-similes whichare now before the reader, (a). No. 288. Ancient Fi.litiug EolipUc. As not a word of explanation accompanies this sinc^ular figure, (noranv other in the book, ) and little or nothing is to be found in Vegetiusor other Roman authors to aid us, all that we can offer must be receivedas conjecture. If the magnitude of tlie machine be judged from otherillustrations in the collection, it was colossal. No object is poitrayednear it by which to infer its relative dimensions. The general outlinelepresents the human bust, and the whole seems to have been an enor-mous Pusterich on wheels. It probably combined the god with the war-rior, assumino- the character of each as occasion required. It is no badrepresentative of both; and the powers it possessed of punishing itsenemies are as obvious as th

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