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Having obtained as much coal as they could by thefe two 

 levels, the third winning was made at a place now called 

 Ginns, which is a village or hamlet near Whitehaven on the 

 fouth weft. 



Horizontal vertical wheels were ereded here, called Ginns, 

 by which they drew the coals with horfes out of the pits, which 

 before was done by men with windlaffes or jack-rolls. 



A FEW houfes being built here, in confequence, for the 

 colliers and workmen, became a confiderable village, now known 

 by the name of Ginns. 



With thefe ginns or vertical wheels both water and coals 

 were drawn from the pits ; but drawing the water thus by horfes 

 and thefe vertical wheels became too expenfive, fo that the 

 coals drawn would not pay for the expenfes incurred. To re- 

 medy this, the late Sir James Lowther purchafed the materials 

 of an engine in London, which had been formerly ufed there 

 for raifing water to fupply the city. Report fays that this was 

 the fecond fteam-engine which was erected in England. The 

 materials were fent in a fhip from London to Whitehaven, 

 where they were put together and fixed upon a pit near Ginns. 

 The depth of this pit is about fifty-fix yards from the earth's 

 furface to the main band or fourth feam of coals. This engine 

 had a copper boiler about ten feet in diameter, with a lead top, 

 a brafs cylinder twenty-eight inches in diameter, and wooden 

 pumps eight inches in diameter, with a brafs working barrel. 



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