196 THE miners' friend. 



you please. By the side of which House without, may be 

 placed your Water-wheel of thirty two, thirty three, or thirty 

 four foot Diameter. For the height of either House or 

 Wheel, I would confine no Person too exactly, but I guess 

 that a convenient height, and no more then what is common 

 enough Under the Wheel I would have a Pond, and on the 

 top of the House a Cistern of Wood, lined with Lead. The 

 Engine may be fixed in any Corner of the Mill-House, 20, 

 21, 22 feet or more from the Level of the Pond: There two 

 Boylers must be fixed, as shewn you in the Draught for 

 fixing the Engine ; and round each of them it is convenient 

 to have a Hoop of Iron, with straps coming from them to 

 rest on the Brick-work, to support and strengthen them. 

 Your Clacks and Pipes in the Front being supported by 

 Wood, and the Vessels standing on Pedestals of Wood, it is 

 convenient that the Flew, or Chimney be so contrived, as to 

 draw very sharp, and the Flew to Circulate round both the 

 Boylers, so that you may lose no part of your strength. 



2. For Palaces or the NoMUties or ■ Gentlemen's Houses, 

 you may fix the Engine in any remote or out-Eoom, whose 

 Floor is not above twenty foot from the Level of your Water, 

 and you may continue your Force-Pipe to the top of your 

 Souse, with a convenient Cistern to hold your Water. Into 

 which lay the Pipes which may convey the Water as you 

 want it, either for Pleasure or Common Occasions. This way 

 of Cisterns on the top of your Mouses or Palaces, would be 

 of singular Use in case of Fire, as is said before ; for in every 

 Stair- Case a Pipe may go down the Corner, or behind the 

 Wainscot, so as to be no Blemish even to the finest of Stair- 

 Cases. At every Floor there may be a Turn- Cock with a 

 Skreio. At the utmost end, have likewise a small Leather- 

 Pipe, kept well oyled, in a Cup-board or Cavity in your 

 Wall, which may not be seen, but on the opening some part 

 of the Wainscot; or such other Contrivance as Ingenious 

 Builder shall think fit to make use of. This Pipe of Leather 

 must be long enough to reach from the Landing --place or 

 Stair-h.ea.([, in all Booms depending thereon. One end of 

 this Pipe has a Skrew to fit the Cock in the other Pipe ; and 

 at the other end a Pipe like the Nose of a pair of Bellows. 



