among sportsmen, a method of taking pheasant powts. It is thus: The sportsman finds out the haunts of thefe birds; and having fixed his nets there, he calls upon them together by a pheasant call, imitating the voice of the dam; after this he makes a noise with his driver, which will make them run a little way forward in a cluster; and this he is to re-peat till he has made sure of them, which an expert sportsman never fails to do, by driving them into his nets.

Metallurgy, is faid of silver, when, in the operation of refining, the lead being burnt away, the remaining copper rises upon its surface in red fiery bubbles.

the sea language, is faid of a ship, when an anchor being let fall will not hold her fast, nor prevent her falling away with the wind or tide. The beft help in this cafe is to let fall more anchors, or to veer out more cable; for the more cable she has out, the safer she rides. When a ship is a-hull or a-try, they say she drives to leeward.