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for the winding engine, you should try to alter it, having the 

 fly-wheel outside the wall of the house, and a crank for the 



inside end of the shaft. 

 The fly-wheel shaft will be 

 nearly the same length both 

 ways, only it must be long 

 enough for the fly-wheel to 

 pass between the wood par- 

 tition and the 4-feet cog- 

 wheel. The centre of the 

 winding cylinder will be 

 17 inches from the outside 

 of the wood end of the 

 house, against which the fly- 

 wheel ought to run. I have 

 received your favour of the 

 5th instant, and have en- 

 closed, agreeably to your re- 

 quest, a draft of Mr. Uville's 

 for 800Z., which will be the 

 last from Cornwall. All I have to say is, you have taken longer 

 time for the completion of your work than you first proposed, 

 which has made Mr, Uville apprehensive that it will be the 

 means of his losing the Spanish ship promised him to take the 

 engines. He desires me to inform you that he has complied 

 with this advance on purpose to enable you to push your work 

 with the utmost exertion. 



" Please to inform us the precise time we must quit Cornwall 

 for Bridgenorth ; we now wait entirely on you without any other 

 thing to engage us. I fear Mr. Kastrick being so much from 

 home will impede our job. If we miss this ship it will cer- 

 tainly make much against us all, losing three or four months 

 in getting a South Sea whaler, and having the engine in a vessel 

 not able to defend herself against an enemy, and having to pay 

 15 or 20 per cent, insurance, and prevent our getting other 

 orders for another set of engines, and if taken by the enemy per- 

 haps altogether damn the undertaking. Therefore I would have 

 you to well consider the great inconveniences attending delay. 



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