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time of the year to serve day and niglit too, tinlesse 

 they go very weakly and so dispatch but little. 



Sixtly, he that wills erect a Water-Mill is bound to 

 set it up where Nature hath provided a sufficient 

 streame, and cannot have one elsewhere upon any 

 termes. 



Lastly (although Water-Mills be of all other the best 

 yet known or used yet) one with the other through Eng^ 

 land J will not grind above foure bushells in an hour ; 

 whereas a good Mil of mine wil (as is aforesaid) grind 

 a quarter or more ; therefore hath a manifest advantage 

 of all other Mills, and especially in this, that the profit, 

 and charge of mine are present or absent together, so 

 that no custom or profit, not a penny charge. 



The Sixt and last Principle of Motion is the Horse- 

 Mill, (I have heard they use Oxen in the Barbado^s). 

 These (though weaker then wind, or Water-MHls) are 

 the best, for so much as they can do, in respect they 

 may be set up, and made use of almost at all times and 

 places, and are lyable to some defects, or inconveni- 

 -ences, though fewer then the other. 



First, if any or all the Horses dye or be dangerously 

 «ick, the dead horse what ever he cost or was worth, 

 is clearly lost to the Master, and the sick must be 

 supplyed, and remain idle till recovered. 



Secondly, (and this is the only most considerable 

 defect or difference, between mine and this, and that 

 is a great one indeed) The horse Mill is absolutely 



