6*2 engine rott RAiartWc water. 



water raife 5 tern at each ftroke. He adds, " I f peak of what it did in the 



parts. Its rate is , a c . l 



about one eighth dr )' elt P art ™ laft fummer; when it fnpplied a laige family, 



part of or* man's together with work-people, &C with watef for all purpofes, 

 throws' up 24 in a Nation where none was to be had before, except fome 

 hogfheads in the bad water from a common pump which has been fince re- 

 moved. But the above fupply being more than fufficient, the 

 machine is occafionally flopped to prevent wear, which is 

 done by merely carting off the firing of the bucket valve." 



XII. 



Concerning the Identity of Tellurium and Antimony, the galvanic 

 Efi'ecte of Magndifin, o.id other Philtfophicul Subjecla. By a 

 Correspondent. 



To Mr. NICHOLSON. 

 S I R, 



Hiftory of the a 



intelligence. xlNXIOUS to learn the particulars as well as the truth of 

 the intelligence which I received from Moravia concerning the 

 Tellurium and the decompaction of water pretended to have 

 been effected at Vienna by means of the magnetic fuid,* I ap- 

 plied to a chemical friend refiding there ; and it appears that 

 this intelligence was not correct. Whence to prevent farther 

 mi {information I conceive it mv duty to haften in publifhing 

 the following extract from my correfpondent's anfwer to my 

 letter; and to requeft you the favour of inferring it in your ex- 

 cellent Journal, if there be room for it. 



I have the honour to be, 

 Sir, 



Your humble fervant, 



N. N. 

 London, April 21. 1802. 



Extract of a Letter from Vienna, dated 30lh March, 1802. 



" The intelligence communicated to you from Moravja 



concerning the Tellurium and decompofitioh of water was a 



little premature, and is not farther true than as follows:" 



Account of the " ^ s *° tne ^ P omt ^ r - Tcharjky, major in the artillery, 



experiments that (well known by his refutation of Tondi's experiments! to- 



teiuier it p.oba- 



ble that Teiluri- * See Philofophical Journal, new Series, vol. I. pag. 234. 



um is antimony. ^. ^ account of this is given in Baron Borns fyftematic catalogue 



of the collection of foffils of Mile de Raab at Vienna. Tranfl. 



wards 



