88 Engine for Raising Water, 
fected with little expense. That many carts are already 
so formed^ that very little additional apparatus will be re 
quired to complete them for the purpose. 
NO, 9* 
Description of a very cheap Engine for raising Water, 
In a letter from Mr, H. Sarjeant of Whitehaven . 
to Mr , Taylor, Secretary to the Society for the En- 
couragement of Arts,* 
(Willi an engraving.) 
Sir — “I am sensible that the little engine, a drawing of 
which accompanies this letter, can lay no great claim to no- 
velty in its principle ; nevertheless it is respectfully submit- 
ted to the consideration of the society, how far its simpli- 
city, and cheapness of construction, may render it worthy 
of their attention, with a view to its being more generally 
known and used in similar cases. 
Irton Hall, the seat of E. L. Irton, Esq. is situated on 
an* ascent of sixty or sixty-one feet perpendicular height; 
at the foot of which, at the distance of about one hundred 
and forty yards from the offices, runs a small stream of 
water. The object was to raise this to the house for do- 
mestic purposes. 
To this end a dam was made at a short distance above^ 
so as to cause a fall of about four feet; and the water 
was brought by a wooden trough, into which was insert- 
ed a piece of two-inch leaden pipe, a part of which is seen 
at A, plate 2, fig. 3. 
The stream of this pipe is so directed as to run into 
the bucket B, when the bucket is elevated ; but so soon 
* Nicholsons vol. ii, p. 60. From the Transactions of the Society, for 1801, p. 
255. The silver medal was given to the Inventor, 
