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other twice in a minute. Now after making the greatest 

 deductions for incomplete strokes that can be demanded, 

 there will remain, for the actual performance of the machine, 

 at least eighty gallons of water, raised fifteen feet. It is 

 to be observed that, as the steam is used in precisely the 

 same manner, whether the receivers are twenty feet or but 

 one foot high, there will be the same quantity of steam used 

 in the above machine, as though it were to work at its great- 

 est height, or about twenty eight feet. The maximum effect 

 then of the steam that would move a one horse engine, 

 when applied to work the above machine, will be to raise 

 eighty gallons of water twenty eight feet per minute. 



The work of a horse of the average strength, is found, 

 when reduced to the raising of water, equivalent to raise 

 seventy gallons, twenty five feet per minute, one fifth less 

 than the above performance. 



But let it be supposed that the work of this machine is 

 the same, or something less, than the power of the same 

 steam, as commonly applied : it is obvious, that for many 

 purposes, it would be beneficial to use it as a mechanical 

 power ; for instance, where fuel is cheap, and the required 

 power will not be sufficient for an expensive engine. 



The principal object proposed by this invention, is to af- 

 ford a cheap method for raising water, where it is required 

 to be raised in large quantities, to heights less than twenty 

 eight or twenty nine feet. It will be seen that the expense 

 of all working machinery will be saved by this invention, as 

 well as the force lost by keeping it in motion, two very mate- 

 rial points in the use of machinery. 



It is believed that this machine could be used to great ad- 

 vantage in dry docks, and for all other purposes where water 

 is required to be raised in a similar manner. These are the 

 objects of the invention, and should any farther explanations 

 be thought necessary, they will be promptly furnished. 



G. W. L. 



1 2. Efficacy of ammonia in counteracting poison ; extract 

 of a letter from Dr. Austin Church to the Editor, dated Coop- 

 erstown, N. Y. Feb. 6, 1829. — A young man in this place had 

 accidentally overset a hive of bees, and before he could es- 

 cape, they had settled, in great numbers, on different parts of 

 his body and limbs and stung him very severely. It was about 

 half an hour after the accident happened, when he came to 



