go NEW STRIKING PART OF A CLOCK. 



a finglc fa6l to corroborate it, merely to try how far it may 

 be found to agree with facls already known. Leaving Mr. 

 Gough to develope his theory, which I confefs I do not 

 comprehend, and therefore cannot follow him in the appli- 

 cation, I proceed to his concluding remarks on the law of 

 affinity, which connects water with the difl'erent gafes. 

 Waicr fufpended Saufllire, to whom Mr. Gough refers, in the ninth chapter 

 or diiJufed alike ^f j^-g fgeond eflay inftruds us, that the folvent powers of 

 common air, carbonic acid, and hydrogen, are the lame as 

 far as his experience goes. The refults of Kirwan's expe- 

 riments I am unacquainted with. Clement and Deforme, 

 in the forty-fecond volume of the Anmles de Chimie ior 1802, 

 have clearly fhewn, that all gafes take up the fame quan- 

 tities of water, alcohol, and ether, in like circuinftances ; 

 and I think 1 have fliewn, that thefe quantities are precifely 

 the fame as a torricelliam vacuum of the fame capacity takes 

 up: So that unlefs Mr. Gough can hold out fome further 

 encouragement to the refumption of the enquiry, it feems 

 hardly likely that any one will undertake to inveftigate the 

 diverfities in the law of affinity between gafes and water, 

 when there does not appear a tingle fadt that points out any 

 affinity at all in the cafe. 



I am your's, &c. 



J. DALTON. 

 Manchejier, Sept. 8, ISO't. 



V. 



' Account of the Striking Part of an Eight'Day Clock, By Mr, 

 John Prior, of Nefsjitld, Yorkjhire. Communicated to 

 the Society of Arts. * 



To CHARLES TAYLOR. 

 SIR, 



New ftriking J. HAVE taken the liberty of fending to you a new flriking- 



part of a COCK. ^^^^ ^^^ ^^ eight-day clock, of my own invention and work- 



manlhip, which I finiQied laft April; **■*■***. I beg 



♦ Extrafted from their Tranfa61ions, 1803. A reward of thirty 

 guineas was given by the Society, who have a model of the fame. 



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