Improvement of arable Land. 24 1 



" Floats are faftcn'd, which are m^de hollow 5 



" the half that is moft remote from the Wheel 



*« holds that Water which is taken in at the 



" open Place above the Middle of the Back of 



«* the Float 5 and as the Wheel goes round, 



" and the Float laden with Water rifes, fo 



** the Water by Degrees tends towards that 



•* Part of the Float which is next the Wheel : 



" As the Float furmounts the Ciftern or Re- 



" ceiver, the Water difcharges it felf into it, 



** every Float fucceeding each other, and all 



** emptying themfelves into the Receiver 5 



" fo that if one Float contains a Gallon of 



" Water, and there be thirty Floats on the 



*« Wheel, at one Motion round it delivers 



" thirty Gallons of Water into the Ciftern. 



«* Such a Wheel may be about fifteen Foot 



« Diameter, and the Floats at eighteen Inches 



^' Diftance, fo as to throw out the Water 



" eleven or twelve Foot above the Level of 



'"■ your Stream. The Wheel will go round 



** four times in a Minute, and carry up a- 



*' bout one hundred and twenty Hoglheads of 



*' Water in an Hour, only by penning or ftop- 



•"' ping an ordinary Current. This Engine 



" will very well water thirty or forty Acres 



** of Land 5 it works conftantly, and will laft 



«* many Years without Repairs, fo as it be 



** not permitted to ftand ftill •, for then one 



" Side would grow dry and lighter than the 



^' other 5 and the flower the Motion is, the 



•* better the Water is delivered.** The Drain- 



S ing, 



