Essay on Curling, and Artificial Pond Making

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: surface so admirably calculated for rink-making, from its holding water, should they attend to our directions. We are extremely sorry to have been compelled to say so much, but we have done all in our power to avoid making any unpleasant observations; and we had been perfectly satisfied if Mr. S. had...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: surface so admirably calculated for rink-making, from its holding water, should they attend to our directions. We are extremely sorry to have been compelled to say so much, but we have done all in our power to avoid making any unpleasant observations; and we had been perfectly satisfied if Mr. S. had admitted the principle was ours, or that we had acted on it before he ever thought of the matter. After all that has been said, we trust Mr. S. will not continue to dispute what we claim as our simple contrivance; he and many more may have thought of the principle, but we believe it was left for us to be the first to practise, and the first to recommend it, to the Curlers and Skaters of Great Britain. SITE FOR THE RINK. It appears to be an ascertained fact, that some particular places, removed only a short distance from each Qther, exhibit very different degrees of heat when tried by the thermometer. It is not an easy matter to say from what this may proceed in all cases; but it appears, that, where there is an opening in thehills towards the north, the cold is generally more severe there, than in situations only a short distance from it. This is so much the case, that we are credibly informed it has been found necessary to have horses frosted after coming to a particular part of the road between Largs and Greenock, where this arctic exposure at certain seasons when frost sets in, invariably shows itself. Taking this for granted, it becomes a matter of no small consideration to find out the site where the cold is most severe; and this is best done by having thermometers placed in different situations, and by examining them all, precisely at the same time. We shall conclude our remarks on this subject, by stating what some Curlers will scarcely credit, that in the w...