206 THE MI>^ERS FRIEND. 



Miner This Notion of yours carries Reason and Demon- 

 stration along with it, which pleases me wonderfully. But 

 Sir, Is not your Price too great for these Migines of yours '? 



Author. By what I shall offer to you, as to my price, I 

 am sure to have you a Friend to me and my Engine for ever. 

 For I must tell you, that I would never have sent my 

 Engine into the World, if it would not raise your Water 

 with more Ease and Conveniency to you and your Servants, 

 and also much Cheaper than any other Engine ever used in 

 your Works, without which I could never propose any 

 Advantage to my self by it. And to Convince you of the 

 Truth of my Assertion, I dare undertake the Engine shall 

 Raise you as much Water for Eight pence, as will cost you a 

 shilling to Raise the like with your Old Engines in Coal-Pits. 

 By this one Article the Miner will save one third part of his 

 former Charge, which is Thirty three pounds six shillings 

 and eight pence saved out of every Hundred pound. A 

 brave Estate gained in one Year out of such Great Works, 

 where Three, Six, or it may be Eight thousand pounds per 

 Annum is Expended for clearing their Jlines of Water only, 

 besides the Charge and Kepair of Gins, Engines, Horses, &c. 

 I hope you will not now Account my Engines dear under 

 such Conditions as I now offer ; But if I should with you 

 suppose my Engine proportionable Dear, or as Dear as the 

 Engines you now Use for Drawing up your Water, which is 

 impossible, my Engine will be preferrable before yours in 

 many respects, insomuch as mine prevents your Damps and 

 the Evil Effect of them ; And as it will be my Interest to 

 allow those that first set my Engine at Work considerable 

 Advantages ; so I hope I may assure my self of due In- 

 couragement from the Ingenious, who are ever studious to 

 promote all Inventions useful and beneficial to the Publick ; 

 for they must conclude, that an Engine which for some time 

 has daily imployed the best Artificers to work on it, was not 

 to be brought forth in one day : And to bring it to that 

 Perfection you now find it, must have cost me and my 

 Friends, not a little Money, to make the Workmen capable 

 of their Work with that Certainty and Exactness they now 

 do. And for Working the Engine, any Person may have 



