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the wind or tide, though directly oppofite, fhall force the 

 (hip or boat againft itfelf and in no point of the compafs, 

 but it {hail be as effectual as if the wind were in the pupp, 

 or the dream actually with the courfe it is to fteer, according 

 to which the oars ihall row, and neceffary motions work and 

 move towards the defired port or point of the compafs. 



XVI. A Sea-failing Fort. 

 How to make a fea-caftle or fortification cannon proof, 

 and capable of a thoufand men, yet failable at pleafure to 

 defend a pall age, or in an hour's time to divide itfelf into 

 three (hips as fit and trimmed to fail as before; and even 

 whilll it is a fort or caftle they fhall be unanimoufly fleered, 

 and effectually be driven by an indifferent flrong wind. 



XVII. A pleafant floating Garden. 

 How to make upon the Thames a floating garden of 

 pleafure, with trees, flowers, banqueting-houfes, and foun- 

 tains, flews for all kind of fifhes, a referve for mow to 

 keep wine in, delicate bathing-places, and the like; with 

 mulic made with mills: and all in the midfl of the flream, 

 where it is moil rapid. 



XVIII. An Hour-glafs Fountain. 

 An artificial fountain to be turned like an hour-glafs, by a; 

 child, in the twinkling of an eye, it holding great quantity of 

 water, and of force fufficient to make fnow, ice, and thunder, 

 with a chirping and finging of birds, and fhowing of fevcral 

 fhapes and effects ufual to fountains of pleafure. 



XIX. A Coach-fa-ving Engine. 

 A little engine within a coach, whereby a child may flop 

 it, and fecure all perfons within it, and the coachman him- 

 felf, thouo-h the horfes be never fo unrulv in a full career ; 

 a child being Sufficiently capable to loofen them in what pof- 

 ture foever they fhould have put themfelves, turning never 

 fo fhort; for a child can do it in the twinkling of an eye. 



XX. A Balance IVater-worh 

 How to bring up water balance-wife, fo that as little 

 weight or force as will turn a balance will be only needful, 

 more than the weight of the water within the buckets,, 

 which, counterpoifed, empty themfelves one into the other, 

 the uppermoft yielding its water (how great a quantity fo- 

 ever it holds) at the felf-fame time the lowermoil taketh it 

 in, though it be an hundred fathom high. 

 XXI. A Bucket Fountain. 



How to raife water conftantly, with two buckets only, day 



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