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comerwife, to and fro, ftraight, upright or downright, yet 

 Ihe pretended operation continueth, and advanceth none of 

 the motions above mentioned, hindering, much lefs flopping 

 the other; but unanimoufly, and with harmony, agreeing, 

 they all augment and contribute ftrength unto the intended 

 work and operation : and therefore- 1 call this a femi- omni- 

 potent engine, and do intend that a model thereof be buried 

 with me. 



XCIX. A moft addirable Way to raife Weights. 

 How to make one pound weight to raife an hundred as 

 high as one pound falleth, and yet the hundred pound de- 

 fcending, doth what nothing lefs than one hundred pounds 

 can effect. 



C. A Jlupendous Water-work. 



Upon fo potent a help as thefe two laft-mentioned inven- 

 tions, a water- work is, by many years experience and la- 

 bour, fo advantageoufly bv me contrived, that a child's force 

 bringeth up, an hundred foot high, an incredible quantity of 

 water, even two foot diameter, fo naturally, that the work 

 will not be heard even into the next room ; and with fo great 

 eafe and geometrical fymmetry, that though it work day and 

 night from one end of the year to the other, it will not re- 

 quire forty millings reparation to the whole engine, nor 

 hinder one's day-work, and I may boldly call it the moft 

 stupendous work in the whole world : not only with little 

 charge to drain all forts of mines, and furnifh cities with 

 water, though never fo high feated, as well to keep them 

 fweet, running through feveral ftreets, and fo performing the 

 work of fcavingers, as well as furniihing the inhabitants with 

 fufficient water for their private occafions; but likewife fup- 

 plying rivers with fufficient to maintain and make them 

 portable from town to town, and for the bettering of lands 

 all the way it runs; with many more advantageous and yet 

 greater effects of profit, admiration, and confequence. So 

 that defervedly I deem this invention to crown my labours, 

 to reward my expenfes, and make my thoughts acnuiefce in 

 way of further inventions : this making up the whole cen- 

 tury, and preventing any further trouble to the reader for 

 the prefent, meaning to leave to potterity a book, wherein 

 under each of thefe heads the means to put in execution and 

 vifible trial all and every of thefe inventions, with the fliape 

 and form of all things belonging to them, (hall be printed 

 by brafs plates. 



In bonum publicum, ct lr.ajorem Dvi gloriam. 



XII. Ob- 



