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IMPORTANT INVENTION FOR DRAINING LAND. 
Fig. 2, is a horizontal view of the loco- 
motive carriage, exhibiting the platform or 
floor on which the boiler, the engine, the 
gearing, and other machinery, are fixed. 
In the side elevation, fig. 3, the boiler and 
one of the steam-engines, with its append- 
ages, is exhibited ; and in fig. 4, which is 
also a side elevation, the mode of mounting 
and driving one of the track rope barrels 
only is represented. Fig. 5, is an end 
view of the locomotive carriage and engine, 
exhibiting the endless flexible floors passing 
over the wheels. 
The auxiliary carriage is shown in a plan 
or horizontal view at fig. 6, and in side ele- 
vation at fig. 7. It is mounted on broad 
rims or rollers, and exhibits the wheel or 
pulley round which the cord is passed from 
the principal carriage. 
Fig. 8, is a plan or field view, upon a 
very minute scale, of the relative position 
of the principal and auxiliary carriages, as 
they are to be employed, together with the 
manner in which the power of the engine 
is communicated to the ploughs or other 
implements, through the agency of the track 
ropes, bands, or chains. 
I intend, wherever the surface of the land 
operated upon shall permit, to make drains 
on each side of the track of the carriages, as 
represented in fig. 8, which , drains will 
serve the double purpose of laying dry the 
roadways on which the carriages travel, and 
of receiving and discharging the -water 
issuing from the drains which may require 
to be made between the parallel roadways of 
the principal and auxiliary carriages. These 
drains, being at right angles to the road- 
ways, may be formed in part by the traction 
of draining ploughs, or other suitable im- 
plements of drainage, by the steam-engine, 
and their intersections with the roadway 
drains may be completed by hand labour. I 
also intend to lay down these roadways in 
grass or herbage, which will be benefitted, 
rather than injured, by the passage of the 
carriages over its surface. This application 
of my invention is more particularly suitable 
to bogs and mosses, which, from their 
extent, will admit of being laid on a plan of 
parallel roadways at given distances, cross- 
ed at right angles by similar roadways. 
These arrangements will prevent the expense 
of constructing hard stone roads : no land 
will be lost, as I contemplate that the culti- 
vation, by my machinery and apparatus, of 
such lands, will be more economical and 
convenient than the employment of horses 
and other cattle, even after they shall have 
acquired sufficient solidity to bear horses 
or other cattle, and carriages of the ordinary 
description. 
The steam-engine, which I deem most 
convenient for the purposes of this inven- 
tion, is constructed upon the high-pressure 
principle, with two horizontal cylinders, 
which, through their connecting rods, give 
motion to the crank shaft. 
The steam whereby the pistons are 
worked is generated in a boiler a, and 
passes from thence through pipes b, n, to 
the induction valves and cylinders c, c, 
which are furnished with suitable valves, 
and the eduction steam is discharged from 
the cylinders after each stroke by the pipes 
D, D, into the chimney e, e. The boiler is 
supplied with water by the force pumps f, f, 
worked by rods attached to tlie slides of the 
piston rods. The power of the engine is 
communicated to the machinery by which 
the carriage is moved, and also to the machi- 
nery designed to work the ploughs and other 
apparatus for draining and tilling the land, 
through t he agency of the crank shaft f. 
On the crank shaft /, there is a sliding 
pinion g, which, when thrown into gear 
with the wheel A, gives rotary motion to the 
train of wheels and pinions A, i, k, I •, by 
which means the large spur wheel m, fixed 
on the shaft of the wheels a, a, will be 
driven round, and with it the wheels a, a, 
also. 
Upon an elongation of the shaft of the 
pinion I, (which is broken off in the draw- 
ing, fig. 2, to avoid confusion, but shown 
by dots,) a similar pinion is fixed, which 
takes into the other spur wheel n ; and, 
consequently, with the wheels a, a, connect- 
ed thereto, the endless floors or bands will 
be made to revolve simultaneously. Thus, 
by the connexion of the sliding pinion g, the 
carriage supporting the steam-engine and 
other machinery is, when required, made 
locomotive. 
At each extremity of the crank shaft y*, 
there is a small spur pinion o, o, in gear with 
the wheels jo, j!?, fixed on the counter shaft 
q, q. These counter shafts each carry a 
pair of mitre wheels turning loosely thereon, 
which take into the teeth of a similar mitre 
wheel fixed on the end of the axle for each of 
the drums or barrels r, r. To these barrels 
track ropes, bands, or chains, are attached, 
for the purpose of drawing the ploughs, or 
other implements, to and fro between the 
principal and auxiliary carriages. 
A clutch box s, slides upon each of the 
counter shafts between the mitre wheels ; 
and when either of the barrels are to be put 
into operation, the clutch box must be slid- 
den so as to lock it into one of the mitre 
wheels, which causes the barrel, by its rota- 
tion, to wind or coil the extended rope or 
chain, and draw the plough, or other imple- 
