Water- 

 works, be 

 most charge- 

 able to the 

 Ignorant. 



WATER-WORKES. 



you would have it drowned ; repaire into 

 the lowest part in the beginning of your 

 uppermost ground ; where if you desire 

 to pound it to such a hight ; pitch your 

 Levell there; which Levell (or Instru- 

 ment) I will make knowne more familarly 

 unto you in the Mapp of my Worke, 

 (which you shall find in this booke in- 

 certed) and commaund your servant to 

 hold some staffe with a paper bound about, 

 some two inches broad: and looke through 

 your Levell from the lowest part of your 

 Ground, unto your desired place. In 

 this manner your Levell will assure you 

 how to cast your ground to an inch. 



And when you have truly learned to 

 Level, which in one hour I will under- 

 take to teach you, you may range over 

 the Kingdome as principall survayors of 

 Rivers, Brookes, Fountaines, and Springs, 

 and accuse the best wits of the greatest 

 negligence, in matter of the greatest 

 Common-wealth . 



It hath beene sayd by some, Water- 

 worses be chargeable and dangerous. 

 They bee so ; for if you adventure to 

 commaund maine Rivers, as Thames^ 

 Severne, and the like : you may judge 

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