For tie TYiimington,an.
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Mr. Editor--It appears that the hints sug-
gestcd in your paper of the 18th and address
ed to the Watering Committee, has given
umbrage to some choleric gentleman, who
undertakes" (gratuitous, prssume,) to de-
fend at the point of hls---pen, whatever
plan the Committee may adopt. Your cor


respondent p, to say the least of hun, has


manifested more petuence than prudence,
or he would not have exposed himself SO e.
gregiously. He tells us "the mill is allowed
a good and sufficient head OF water for driv-
ing a stone OF certain dimensions with the
necessary machinery for manufacturing
tleman, what is to prevent all the water in
The race from flowing upon the wheel? why a
gate, to he sure' \ gate to open and yet make
to aperture What way can yen measure the
amount of that sufficient quantity when ap-
Piled to other purposes than the milling, but
/ ty an equal aperture. whether that be Some
hundred and five" or5o0 square inches, does
not in the least degree affect the correctness OF
the position took in my last, viz: that it is
more eligible to reserve a portion of the wa
ter for the supply Of the pump, after it has
passed the gate, or, If he please, part oi
this Sufficient quantity" b.f2rc it has f..llen
on tho wheel, than to raise a column an adj
dtional is feet with all the power allowedi
and for this byious reason. that it will re-
7 quire, with the most perfect III chnery o


the construction proposed, at least 5 gallon
OIL the wheel to raise two gallons to an equa
any doubts upon the subject, ! hope, if MOI
| for the interest Of the Borough, at least fol
their own credits sake, that they will consult
scientific and practical men upon this point


when it will be found il strict accordance
with sound philosophy and experience. But
=. tells us "those gentlemen will doubtless
have enough to attend to without noticing
the z,hims Of every theorist," alluting TO the
practical hints thrown out in my last 1t
however, your correahonac." could have
taken Mc timr to examine, sobelly, he might
have discovered. instead OF "whlns" and
"theories," some useful facts and obvious
deductions; obvious at least to those whose
faculties had not become stultifed. If P
can prove them false, then he has discovered
the long sought perpetual motion and we
have no need of the mill. But as have nc
faith in his having made this discovery. ! car
see nothing to compensate for this loss o


hozvcr but the 79eigat OF his stupendous &C.
Mus. "