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Iron Works of Firozpur. 
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IX . — Mot for raising Water at Mirzapur , 
To the Editor of the Gleanings in Science. 
Sib, 
I send you the rough sketch of a mode which I lately saw at Mirzapfir of draw- 
ing water for Horticultural and Agricultural purposes ; should it be of any service 
to you as a leaf in your valuable nosegay, or useful to the few who turn their 
thoughts to the value of cheap and expeditious irrigation, I shall be happy in hav- 
ing communicated it : not that I flatter myself it possesses any novelty; tor my 
experience in the world and in books has been too limited to consider that an 
invention, which I have not myself seen or heard of before. 
Plate XIX. fig. 7, will fully explain the particular parts of the machine, 
which has the advantage of requiring only one bullock and one driver, to 
he relieved at 12 o’clock, to draw up for six hours a constant supply of water 
by two mots, which alternately ascend and descend as their respective wheels mayor 
may not be hooked to the clog d. Supposing the upper wheel c, as in the skett b, 
to have drawn up the mot, and the water to be discharged by the mouth, the chain 
of that wheel is unhooked and applied to the lower wheel, which then draws up its 
attached bucket; while the first, the wheel being free, falls down by its own 
weight and fills, and thus each alternately performs the evolution. Both buckets 
might discharge their contents on the same side of the well, and the pulleys would 
of course be also on that side, only one above the other, each hoi izontal to its 
wheel and separated about two feet in their perpendicular ; and this perhaps 
would be the simplest way, as a view of the sketch with regard to the mouth string 
will shew ; but as it would be less clear on paper, I have made it different v, or 
the sake of explaining the plan more readily to the eye. 
I remain, Sir, 
’ Your’s obediently, 
X. Y. Z. 
X . — Iron Works at Firozpur. 
Having lately had an opportunity of visiting the iron works of Firozpur, an 
examining the whole process by which the metal is manufacture , 
U I 1 a hasty account of it for insertion in the Gleanings, should \ou thin it 
a Place in your pages. I have also procured specimens of the wrought iron, w nc 
however, does not appear to be particularly good of its kind ; but a portion 
’’hall be forwarded, if required. Not having visited the mines, am una 
10 the manner in which the ironstone is quarried ; but from the appearance 
the ore itself, I should imagine, that it is got at with very little difficulty. 
The Narnoul ore is of two kinds ; the one sort being nodular, or pro 
* ma, l lum Ps, the exterior of which is of a rusty colour, while the interior asa 
’Metallic fracture ; and the other kind is produced in large masses, »PP‘ l - 
** i-rhtly laminar structure, readily fracturing into very small piec ese two 
° Wever , aware, that there is any difference in the component pai 
ores. _ . 
lh e Firozpur ore, called Burl, is found in concretions of various 
dul| W ’ andpresents the same appearance both internally an “ ^ a muc h 
c ‘ u 'thy fracture, coloured throughout with ir° u ras } 
