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and heft to the one fide a« the other. A mod incredible 

 thing, if not feen, but tried before the late king (of blefled 

 memory) in the Tower, by my directions, two extraordinary 

 ambafladors accompanying his majefty, and the duke of 

 Richmond and duke Hamilton, with raoft of the court, at- 

 tending him. The wheel was fourteen foot over, and t forty 

 weights of fifty pounds apiece. Sir William Balfour, theft 

 lieutenant of the Tower, can juftify it, with feveral others. 

 They all faw, that no fooner thefe great weights pafTed the 

 diameter-line of the lower fide, but they hung a foot further 

 from the centre, nor no fooner palfed the diameter-line of 

 the upper fide, but they hung a foot nearer. Be pleafed to 

 judge the confequencc. 



LVII. A conjlant Water- flowing and ebbing Motion. 

 An ebbing and flowing water-work in two veffels, into 

 either of which, the water ftanding at a level, if a globe be 

 call in, in ft cad of rifing it prefently ebbeth, and fo remaineth 

 until a like globe be call into the other veflel ; which the 

 water is no fooner fenfible of, but that veffel prefently ebbeth, 

 and the other floweth, and fo continueth ebbing and flowing 

 until one or both of the globes be taken out, working fome 

 little effect: befides its own motion, without the help of any 

 man within fight or hearing; but if either of the globes be 

 taken out, with ever fo fvvift or eafy a motion, at the very 

 initant the ebbing and flowing ceafeth; for if during the 

 ebbing you take out the globe, the water of that velfel pre- 

 fently returneth to flow, and never ebbeth after, until the 

 globe be returned into it, and then the motion beginneth as 

 before. 



LV1II. An often- dif charging Pi/lol. 



How to make a piftol to difcharge a dozen times with one 

 loading, and without fo much as once new priming requi- 

 iiie, or to change it out of one hand into the other, or nop 

 one's horfe. 



LIX. An efpecial Way for Carabines. 



Another way as faft and effectual, but more proper for ca- 

 rabines. 



LX. A Flajk-charger. 



A way with a flalk appropriated unto it, which will furnifh 

 either piftol or carabine with a dozen charges in three mi- 

 nutes time, to do the whole execution of a dozen mots, as 

 foon as one pleafeth, proportionably. 



LXI. A Way for Mufkets. 

 A third way, and particular for mulkets, without taking 

 D % them 



