as a Vehicle for transporting Heat. 333 



The reader will, no doubt, be more disposed to pay 

 attention to what has here been advanced on this inter- 

 esting subject, when he is informed that the proposed 

 scheme has already been executed on a very large scale, 

 and with complete success ; and that the above details 

 are little more than exact descriptions of what actually 

 exists. 



A great mercantile and manufacturing house at Leeds, 

 that of Messrs. Gott and Company, had the courage, not- 

 withstanding the mortifying prediction of all their 

 neighbours, and the ridicule with which the scheme was 

 attempted to be treated, to erect a dyeing-house^ on a very 

 large scale indeed, on the principles here described and 

 recommended. 



On my visit to Leeds in the summer of the year 

 1800, I waited on Mr. Gott, who was then mayor of 

 the town, and who received me with great politeness, 

 and showed me the cloth-halls and other curiosities of 

 the place ; but nothing he showed me interested me 

 half so much as his own truly noble manufactory of 

 superfine woollen cloths. 



I had seen few manufactories so extensive, and none 

 so complete in all its parts. It was burnt to the ground 

 the year before, and had just been rebuilt on a larger 

 scale, and with great improvements in almost every 

 one of its details. 



The reader may easily conceive that I felt no small 

 degree of satisfaction, on going into the dyeing-house, 

 to find it fitted up on principles which I had some share 

 in bringing into repute, and which Mr. Gott told me 

 he had adopted in consequence of the information he 

 had acquired in the perusal of my Seventh Essay. 



He assured me that the experiment had answered, 



