WITH NOTES. 535 



with fufficient to maintaine and 

 make them portable 6 from Towne to 

 Towne, and for the bettering of Lands 

 all the way it runs ; with many more 

 advantageous, and yet greater effefts 

 of Profit, Admiration, and Confe- 

 quence. So that defervedly I deem 

 this Invention to crown my La 

 bours, to reward my Expences, and 

 make my Thoughts acquiefce in 

 way of further Inventions : This 

 making up the whole Century, and 

 preventing any further trouble to 

 the Reader for the prefent, meaning 

 to leave to Pofterity a Book, where 

 in under each of thefe Heads the 

 means to put in execution and 

 vifible trial all and every of thefe 

 Inventions, with the ihape and 

 form of all things belonging to 

 them, shall be Printed by Brafs- 

 plates. 7 



In Bonum Publicum 



& 

 Ad Major em DEI Glorlam.* 



6 make navigable for, make them portable. 



7 Thus ends No. 100 of the first printed edition ; but Mr. P. continues the para- 

 graph by adding from the MS. what is clearly only a Postscript to the entire 

 &quot; Century.&quot; He then concludes with the Latin phrase, thus following neither 

 work entirely. 



* The folloAving concluding part cf the MS., added as a postswipt, does not 



