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A Table showing the performance and its cost, in raising water from 10 to 45 
feet by different methods of employing animal power. The expense of each la- 
bourer is put at two annas per diem, except in the instance of the walking beam, 
put half as much more, on account of wear and tear of machine. 
c 
£ 
Height raised in feet. | 
No. of persons equi- 
valent. 
Method. 
| Stages. 
Loads per hour. 
Cubic feet 
| Hours* labour. 
Total per- 
formance 
in the pe- 
riod. 
J Hogsheads each man. 
N uni tier of hogsheads 
raised for one rupee. 
Period of 
labour. 
per load. 
per hour. 
Cubic feet. 
Hogsheads. 
1 
10 
5 
Baling 
2 
1200 
i 
Ts 
400 
6 
2400 
300 
60 
480 
whole day. 
2 
u 
3 
Bullocks 
1 
44 
1.75 
77 
6 
462 
57| 
194 
312 
half day. 
3 
n 
1 
Walking beam 
1 
800 
.5 
400 
8 
3200 
400 
400 
2250 
whole day. 
1 
45 
50 
Baling 
10 
120( 
4 
400 
6 
2400 
300 
6 
48 
r 
2 
45 
5 
Bullocks 
1 
32 
1.75 
56 
12 
672 
84 
164 
135 
I whole 
3 
45 
6 
Walking beam 
4 
80(1 
.5 
400 
12 
4800 
600 
100 
533 
1 day- 
4 
45 
100 
Baling 
10 
1000 
4 
332 
12 
3984 
498 
5 
40 
l 
The relative performances are for small heights for each method. 
Hhds. Ratios. Hhds. per Rupee. 
Baling, 60 or 3 480 
Bullocks, 20 „ 1 623 
Walking beam, 400 „ 20 2230 
For heights 30 to 45 feet. 
Ratios. Hhds. per Rupee. 
Baling, 3 * 40 to 48 
Bullocks, 8^ 135 to 150 
Walking beam,. 25 533 
In the baling method the number of deliveries was observed to be 22 (19+25 
+2), but the number is taken here at 20 per minute, or 1200 per hour; 1000 ought 
perhaps to be a maximum, supposing even that there were a complete relief as 
per second statement, No. 4. 
The height assigned in the “ Gleanings," No. 4. of 10 ft. seems to he an error, 
since the first stage did not exceed 3J feet, which would leave 64 feet for the height 
of delivery for the 2d stage, a height that is obviously most inconvenient for the 
kind of instrument employed. H. I). E. 
VII . — Proceedings of Societies. 
1. — Asiatic Society. 
Class of Natural History and Physics. 
Wednesday, 2d May , 
Honorable Sir £. Ryan in the Chair. 
Mr. Walters of Dacca presented a box of rock specimens and minerals from the 
C4siya Hills. Captain Bruce a collection made in a journey along the hills of 
Rotasgerh and Sasserdm, with a letter descriptive of their localites. 
A paper on the Geology of the Peninsula from Hydrabad to Masulipatam, with 
an explanatory section, by Lieut. McPherson, Madras N. I., was read. 
A paper by James Kyd, Esq. on the Tides of the river Hugli, the result of ob- 
servations from 1805 to 1828, with Tables, was also read. Some specimens of litho- 
graphic impressions, taken from a Jysselmir stone, were presented by Mr. Smith of 
the Commercial Lithographic Press. The stone was forwarded to Calcutta by 
Lieut. Boilcau of the Engineers. The particulars of the locality are not yet ascer- 
