830.)
Roll-box.
（Spinning.) In the jack-frame, the rotary can or cylinder in which the bobbin and carrier cylinder for the rovings revolve.
Roll′er.
1. (Husbandry.) A clod-crusher or ground-leveler.
An implement of a cylindrical form to roll over arable ground to break clods, cover seed, and press in plants which are thrown out of the ground by frost.
The roller is mentioned as an implement for breaking the clods of arable ground by Googe, in his Heresbachius, published in 1578.
Land-roller.
The ordinary land-roller has a single cylinder made of a trunk of a tree or of logs of wood upon a skeleton frame, or is a shell of iron with spokes and having sockets for an axle or gudgeons.
Fig. 4398 shows a double roller, in which the detachable tongue is confined with bands to the frame to which it is bolted.
The rear rollers are adjusted and loosely attached to the elongated rear bar of the forward frame.
Land-roller.
Fig. 4399 has three rollers on separa
eled disk B′, and to the moon m′; the bent stem on which the latter is mounted is connected with an eccentric ring, causing it to move in an elliptic orbit around the earth; it has also a friction-wheel, which, traveling around the inclined edge of the disk B′, produces an alternate ascent and descent of the moon, illustrating its changes of declination; the parts by which the moon is revolved are also so adjusted as to exhibit the retrogression of their nodes.
See also Orrery, pages 1577, 1578; planetarium, page 1727.
Tel-o-dy-nam′ic Ca′ble.
A means for transmitting power, originated by Hirn of Logelbach, in which high speed is employed to give the momentive effect of great mass.
The motor is made to give a high velocity to a pulley-wheel, and this wheel is employed to carry a cable which passes over another pulley at the point where the power is to be applied for use. The cable may be lighter in proportion as the velocity with which it travels is greater.
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ufficiency (to borrow one of his own words) we come suddenly upon passages whose gravity of sentiment, stateliness of movement, and purity of diction remind us of Landor.
These lucid intervals in his overweening vanity explain and justify the friendship of Spenser.
Yet the reiteration of emphasis with which he insists on all the world's knowing that Nash had called him an ass, probably gave Shakespeare the hint for one of the most comic touches in the character of Dogberry. Between 1576 and 1578 Spenser seems to have been with some of his kinsfolk in the North.
It was during this interval that he conceived his fruitless passion for the Rosalinde, whose jilting him for another shepherd, whom he calls Menalcas, is somewhat perfunctorily bemoaned in his pastorals.
The late Major C. G. Halpine, in a very interesting essay, makes it extremely probable that Rosalinde is the anagram of Rose Daniel, sister of the poet, and married to John Florio.
He leaves little doubt, also, that the n
inst the ancient religion of France?
The colony of Huguenots at the
1562 to 1567. South sprung from private enterprise; a government which could devise the massacre of St. Bartholomew,
1572. Aug. 24. was neither worthy nor able to found new states.
At length, under the mild and tolerant reign of Henry IV., the star of France emerged from the clouds of blood, treachery, and civil war, which had so long eclipsed her glory.
The number and importance of the fishing stages had increased; in 1578 there were one
1578 hundred and fifty French vessels at Newfoundland, and regular voyages, for traffic with the natives, began to be successfully made.
One French mariner, before 1609, had made more than forty voyages to the American coast.
The purpose of founding a French empire in America was renewed, and an ample commission
1596. was issued to the Marquis'de la Roche, a nobleman of
Chap. I.} Brittany.
Yet his enterprise entirely failed.
Sweeping the prisons of France, he establishe
s of Arkansas, and covet the moss-grown barrens of the Esquimaux.
I have now to relate the first attempt of the English,
1578. under the patronage of Elizabeth, to plant an establishment in America.
Hakluyt, III. 71—73.
It was believed that tself could not vie with the riches of this hyperborean archipelago
But the entrance to these wealthy islands was ren-
1578. May 31, to Sept. 28. dered difficult by frost; and the fleet of Frobisher, as it now approached the American coast, was bns, for they still frequented the fisheries of Iceland; but yet they were commonly lords in the harbors, and
Chap. III.} 1578. in the arrogance of naval supremacy, exacted payment 1578 for protection.
See the letter of Ant. Park-Burst, who had h1578 for protection.
See the letter of Ant. Park-Burst, who had himself been for four years engaged in the Newfound-land trade, in Hakluyt, III. 170—174. It is an incident honorable to the humanity of the early voyagers, that, on one of the American islands, not far from the fishing stations, hogs and horned cattl
