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A LETTER 



TO 



MR. SAMUEL HARTLIB, 



CONCERNING 



AN INVENTION OF ENGINES OF MOTION, 



LATELY BROUGnT TO PERFECTION. 



Sir, 



Whereas by the blessing of God, who only is 

 the giver of every good and perfect gift, while I was 

 searching after that which many far before me in all 

 humane learning have sought, but not yet found, 

 (viz.) a Perpetual Motion or self-motion, or a lessening 

 the distance between strength and time ; though I say 

 not that I have yet fully obtained the thing it self, yet I 

 have advanced so near it, that already I can with the 

 strength or help of 4. men, do any work which is 

 done in England, whether by wind, water, or horses, 

 as the grinding of Wheat, Rape, or raising of waters : 

 Not by any power or wisdom of mine own, but by God^s 



