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COLLECTIONS AND RECOLLECTIONS. 
Description of a Musical Dial Fountain. —I venture to 
send the following description, and annexed diagram, ol what I 
designate a Musical Dial Fountain j if it be no acquisition, it cei- 
tainly will add to the variety of this description of Garden Orna¬ 
ments, and may he somewhat interesting to some ot your numerous 
readers, who like myself, may he fond of a little amusement this 
way. Its principles may be readily understood. Fig. 35, a, b, is a 
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pedestal varied in form, as taste, or fancy may suggest, provided a 
sufficient cavity be left as at ( d .) for the introduction of a small wire 
musical instrument, or box, with a horizontal dial at its summit as 
(c,) p, q, is the conducting pipe, which discharges water from the 
figure (o,) into the vessel (f) which is a tubular vessel on Dr. Bar¬ 
ker’s principle, at the bottom is attached the horizontal trunk (r, s ,) 
near the ends of which, but on opposite sides thereof, must be made 
two holes (rc) and (n) while the vessel is kept full of water, and con¬ 
tinues to have free egress through the holes ( n ) and ( n) the pressure 
is entirely removed from those points, and the pressure against the 
opposite side will turn round the figure or vessel (/, g ,) and discharge 
the water into the bason (v) beneath it. The bottom i part (x, y,) 
turns in a groove in the cross bar, or at the bottom of the fountain 
the top part turning a small cog wheel, within the extremity of the 
projecting plate (/) which communicates by wire or otherwise, with 
the instrument it has to play, which being fixed within, or near the 
