and timber was in sufficient plenty on the 

 spot. 



Confident that nothing could be done with- 

 out having a perfect command of the water, 

 the first idea was to drain it by a ditch ; but 

 the necessary distance of perhaps half a mile, 

 presented a length of labour that appeared im- 

 mense. It was, therefore, resolved to throw 

 the water into a natural bason about sixty feet 

 distant, the upper edge of which was about 

 ten feet above the level of the water. An in- 

 genious m.ill-wright constructed the machi- 

 nery; and after a week of close labour, com- 

 pleted a large scaffolding and a wheel twenty 

 feet diameter, wide enough for three or four 

 men to walk a-breast in : a rope round this 

 turned a small spindle, which worked a chain 

 of buckets regulated by a floating cylinder : 

 the water, thus raised, was emptied into a 

 trough, which conveyed it to the bason ^ a 

 ship's pump assisted, and towards the latter 

 part of the operation, a pair of half barrels, in 

 removing the mud. This machine worked so 

 powerfully, that in the second day the water 



