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phantafie,confider what will follow out of its motion. You will 

 perceive that when ont leg finkech down towards the water, 

 that trough which is next to the fiipcrficies of it, putting down 

 his boxcndjand dipping it a little in the water;muft needs bring 

 up as much as it can retain,when that leg afcendeth:w ch when it 

 is at its height>the trough moveth upon his own ccter;&the box 

 end,which was loweft, becometh now higheft, and fo the wa- 

 ter runneth out of it. Now the other leg descending at the fame 

 time; it falleth out that the trough on its fide, which would be a 

 ftep above that which hath the water in it, if they ftood in equi- 

 librity, becometh now a ftep lower then it: and is (b placed, that 

 the water which runneth out of that \vhich is aloft, falleth into 

 the head or box of it; which no (boner hath received it, but that 

 leg on which it is faftned, fpringcth up, and the other defcepd- 

 eth : fb that the water ofthe fecond leg, runneth now into the 

 box of the firft leg, that is next above that which firft laded the 

 water out ofthe river. And thus,the troughs ofthe two legs de- 

 liver their water by turnes from one fide to the other ; and at 

 every remove, itgetteth a ftep upwards, till it comethtothc 

 toppe; whiles at every afcent and defcent ofthe whole fide, 

 the loweft ladle or trough taketh new water from the river : 

 which ladle full followeth immediately in its afcent, that which 

 Was taken up the time before. And thus, in a little while, all the 

 troughs from the bottome to the top arc full ; unleffe there hap- 

 pen to be fome failing in fome ladle : and in that cafe the water 

 breaketh out there;and all the ladles above that are dry. 



The other engine, or rather multitude of feveral! engines, to ? 

 perform fundry different operations, all conducing to one work ty'^hich'"! 

 (whereas, that of Toledo, is but one tenour of motion from the be cKprefled 

 firft to the laft-) is in the minte at Segovia. Which is fo artifici- of^'vm-^crca 

 ally made, thac one part of it, diftendeth an ingot offilveror tuie 

 gold into that breadth and thicknefle as is requifite to make 

 coyn of. Which being done, it delivereth the plate it hath 

 wrought, unto another that printeth the figure ofthe coyn. 

 upon it. And from thence it is turned over to another that cut- 

 teth it according to the print, into due fhape and weight. And 

 laftly, the feverall pieces fall into a refervc, in another roome : 

 where the officer, whofe charge it is,findeth treafure ready coin- 

 ed ; without any thing there, to informe him of the fercrall 



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