Part, §

 1 Pre,  1|        lifting water by means of horses which Mr. Newcomen found
 2 Pre,  7|        of artifices, actuated by horses. As however the inventors
 3   I,  1|          proved that six pair of horses were unable to separate
 4  II, 20|        drawing water by means of horses, which the following circumstances
 5  II, 20|       decided to replace all the horses, of which now 500 are being
 6  II, 20|         as the fire-machine with horses) going as well, thus hoping
 7  II, 20|          or worked by 8 pairs of horses, which have been relayed
 8  II, 20|        been drawn by 32 pairs of horses for 24 hours.~ ~"This horse-whim
 9  II, 20|              As to the cost, the horses with their apparatus have
10  II, 21|       horse-whims of 32 pairs of horses each, which makes altogether
11  II, 21|       which makes altogether 192 horses in 24 hours.~ ~ ~ ~The Dannemora
12  II, 21|         each drawn by 4 pairs of horses, or altogether 528 horses
13  II, 21|        horses, or altogether 528 horses in 24 hours.~ ~ ~ ~
14  II, 22|         each drawn by 4 pairs of horses. I will however try to explain
15  II, 23| Dannemora, drawn by two pairs of horses, can not draw more than
16  II, 23|         in 12 hours, even if the horses are trotting. (Generally
17  II, 23|         trotting. (Generally the horses go at a footpace, and it
18  II, 23|      taken into account that the horses must be allowed 12 hours
19 III, 44|       depth than by the means of horses, upon the cost of which
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