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undergoing much severity of exercise in the fatiguing 

 sports and pastimes then in vogue. 



In 1639, his confidential workman, Caspar Kaltoff, 

 would have expended eleven years in constructing models 

 and machines to establish the practicability of the many 

 novel schemes which his Lordship had, up to that time, 

 developed. Meanwhile, his own reading was no doubt 

 pursued with vigour, and we cannot believe him to have 

 been unpossessed of the celebrated authorities among 

 English and foreign writers. He must have studied 

 with interest Eamelli s very elaborate volume, 1588, on 

 machines, illustrated with one hundred and ninety -five 

 large, finely executed copper-plate engravings ; the 

 popular Spiritalia of Hero of Alexandria ; with even, 

 perhaps, the works of the engineer and architect 

 Solomon De Caus, published in 1615; together with 

 the labours of many kindred writers. Judging, how 

 ever, from internal evidence, there was one, among 

 many English authors, whose work especially gratified 

 his taste, the &quot; Mysteries of Nature and Art,&quot; by John 

 Bate, which went through two editions, dating 1634 

 and 1635, containing a &quot; Booke of Water-workes,&quot; 

 treating of &quot; evaporating water, and rarifying ayre.&quot; 

 The peculiarity of such studies was sufficient to separate 

 him from the fashionable society of Courts, and the 

 too frequently frivolous society attendant even at 

 Eaglan Castle. If he then made few enemies, his con 

 versation and pursuits were little calculated to enlarge 

 his social acquaintance, and may even have early in 

 spired a belief in his possessing equal eccentricity and 

 enthusiasm. His memory, however, cannot fail to be 

 cherished by posterity as the illustrious possessor of a 

 highly cultivated intellect, displaying a singularly 

 powerful, original, protean inventive genius. 



