WITH NOTES. 



invention, that the former should be the sole inventor 

 of a single marvellous production of ingenuity, without 

 producing any novelty either before or afterwards, or 

 displaying any particular inventive ability to improve 

 on this early effort, which he left as at first produced. 

 &quot; The Miners Friend&quot; is not unlike an imitation of 

 the &quot; Exact and true definition of the most Stupendous 

 Water-commanding Engine 5&quot; for example : 



The MARQUIS S invention S AVERT recommends the 



is recommended u to 



every individual, if he 



either have surrounded 



Marsh-ground to drain, 



or dry land to improve.&quot; 

 &quot; Thus whole cities may be 



kept clean, delightful, 



Engine 



&quot;As 



he proposes : 

 4. &quot; As for draining fens 

 and marshes,&quot; &c. 



3. &quot; Nothing can be more 

 fit for serving cities and 

 towns with water.&quot; 



6. &quot; For draining of mines 

 and coal pits, the use of 

 the engine will suffi 

 ciently recommend itself 

 in raising water so easy 

 and cheap.&quot; 



2. &quot;It may be of great use 

 for palaces, for the no 

 bilities, or gentlemen 7 s 

 houses ; for by a cistern 

 on the top of a house 

 * * * which water in 

 its fall makes you what 

 sorts of fountains you 

 please.&quot; 



Savery says : &quot; And though my thoughts have been 

 long imployed about water-works, I should never have 



and wholesome.&quot; 

 &quot; Or, if he have (I further 

 say), Mines wherewith 

 to enrich himself withal.&quot; 



&quot; Houses to be served, or 

 gardens to be beautified 

 by plentiful fountains, 

 with little charge, yet 

 certain in ever so dry a 

 Summer.&quot; 



