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VIII. To level Cannons by Night. 

 A way how to level and fhoot cannon by night as well as 

 bv day, and as di redly ; without a platform or meafures taken 

 by day, yet by a plain and infallible rule. 



IX. A Sbip-dejiroying Engine. 



An engine, portable in one's pocket, which may be carried 

 and fattened on the infide of the created fhip, tanquam aliud 

 agens, and at anv appointed minute, though a week after, 

 cither of day or night, it (hall irrecoverably fink that fhip. 



X. Hozu to be fiflened from aloof and under Water. 



A way from a mile off to dive and fatten a like engine to 

 any (hip, fo as it may punctually work the fame effect either 

 for time or execution. 



XI. Hozv to prevent both. 



How to prevent and fafeguard any fhip from fuch an at- 

 tempt by day or night. 



XII. An unjznkable Ship. 



A way to make a fhip not poffible to be funk though (hot 

 an hundred times betwixt wind and water by cannon, and 

 fhould lofe a whole plank, yet in half an hour's time mould 

 be made as fit to fail as before. 



XIII. Falfe defiroying Decks. 



How to make fuch falfe decks as in a moment mould kill 

 and take prifoners as many as mould board the fhip, without 

 blowing the decks up, or deftroying them from being reduci- 

 ble, and in a quarter of an hour's time mould recover their 

 former fhape, and to be made fit for any employment with- 

 out difcovering the fecret. 



XIV. Multiplied Strength in little Room. 



How to bring a force to weigh up an anchor, or to 

 do any forcible exploit in the narrowed or Ioweft room in 

 any fhip, where few hands fliall do the work of many; and 

 many hands applicable to the fame force, fome (landing, 

 others fitting, and bv virtue of their feveral helps a great 

 force augmented in little room, as effectual a^ if there were 

 fufficient fpace to go about with an axle-tree, and work far 

 from the centre. 



XV. A Boat driving againfl Wind and Tide. 



A way how to make a boat work itfelf againfl: wind and 

 tide, yea both without the help of man or beatt : yet fo that 



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