ANCHOR.
I love to look on an Anchor. Like a good friend who helps you in trouble, it holds the ship steady in a storm. Its flukes sink deep into the bottom of the sea, or cling to the rocks, and nothing but a great storm can separate it from the cable which is fastened to the vessel. Anchors are of solid iron and very heavy; and cables are made of hemp or of iron chain. Large ships have four anchors, small vessels two. Hope is called the anchor of the soul, because, as the ship is held by the anchor which lies in the sea, so the soul is supported by Hope which is cast in Heaven.
WIND-MILL.
The Wind-Mill has sails fixed to very long poles, and when the wind blows strong, round go the wings. As the wings blow round, they carry round a large stone inside the house; this stone rubs on top of another mill-stone, and corn is put between them, which is thus broken and ground into meal. We cannot eat corn till it is ground; but horses can. Some mill-stones are likewise carried round by a stream of running water, and some by the steam of boiling water. There are a number of water-mills on the Mill-dam which leads from Boston to Roxbury.
There is a wind-mill in Boston, which stands in Sea-street, near the new bridge to South-Boston.
There is a steam-mill next to the iron-works at South-Boston, which grinds corn and grain.
