592 Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 
made is also applicable. There was a very sufficient reason for our 
not inserting Mr. Henwood’s last reply to Mr. John Taylor on the 
subject of the steam-engines of Cornwall, namely, that the quotation 
itcontains from the Records of Mining is made in so garbled a manner 
as to be a complete misrepresentation of Mr. Taylor's statement. 
To prove this we give the passage entire as we find it in the Records 
of Mining, including in brackets what Mr. Henwood has suppressed, 
and by the suppression of which he has perverted the sense of the 
whole. 
«In the early part of the year (1813) the best duty was about 
26 millions, by Captain Trevithick at Wheal Prosper, [Captain John 
Davey at Wheal Alfred, and Messrs Jeffree and Gribble at Stray 
Park. Towards the close of the year Captain Davey first attained 
27 millions, then Jeffree and Gribble 28, and by the end of the year 
the latter had nearly arrived at 30 millions.)” 
One half of a sentence of the foregoing paragraph is thus brought 
forward in contradiction of Mr. Taylor's statement that Captain 
Trevithick’s “engine did only about 26 millions duty, and did not 
equal other engines then working in the common way.” A reference 
to the work itself showed us that if the remainder of the paragraph 
had been given, it would at once have been seen that the imputation 
was groundless. Can it reasonably be required of us to lend our 
pages to charges thus supported ? 
We will only add to this that the title « On anew Rotative Steam- » 
Engine,” was prefixed to Mr, Taylor’s first paper not by him, but 
by ourselves ; and the only sense in which we used the term “ new” 
was in that of “newly or lately erected.” Mr. Henwood must have 
been aware that Mr, Taylor had himself wholly precluded the sup- 
position that it could mean “newly invented,” by mentioning an 
older engine of the same description erected by Mr. Godfrey. 
METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR APRIL 1836. 
Chiswick.—April 1. Dry haze: sleet: stormy with rain at night 2, 3. Cold 
and windy. 4. Clear and fine. 5. Slight haze: cloudy: rain. 6, Rain: 
cloudy. 7. Rain: clear. 8,9. Rain: cloudyand fine. 10. Fine. 11. Cold 
haze: clear at night. 12. Overcast: rain. 13. Cloudy. 14, Overcast and 
cold, 15. Slightrain. 16. Foggy. 17.Rain: cloudyand cold. 18. Drizzly: 
fine. 19.Fine. 20.Cloudy: rain, 21. Very fine. 22. Rain: fine. 23, Rain. 
24. Rain: stormy at night. 27. Cloudy and cold. 28. Overcast. 29, 30. Clear, 
cold and dry. 
Boston.—April 1. Fine: rain and snow p.m. 2. Cloudy. 3. Stormy : 
rain and snow a.m. 4. Fine. 5. Cloudy. 6.Rain. 7. Rain. 8, Rain. 
9. Cloudy. 10. Fine. 11. Cloudy. 12. Cloudy. 13. Cloudy: rain p.m. 
14. Cloudy; rainp.m. 15. Cloudy. 16. Fine: raine.m. 17. Cloudy. 
1s. Rain. 19. Fine: rainr.m. 20. Cloudy. 21. Fine. 292. Fine: rain 
early a.m. 23.Fine. 24. Cloudy: rainearlya.m. 25. Cloudy. 26. Fine. 
27. Rain. 28. Cloudy. 29. Fine: ice this morning. 30, Stormy. 
