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# Title: Lectures De Potentia Restitutiva, Or Of Spring (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 105, Stück 1; Leibn. Marg. 105)
# Folio 25, page id 859264114:0033
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lappInS Letter contamine
Description of a W ind-Fountain, and
his oun particular contrivance about the
forcer of its Sprinse.
Tncc che Artificiat F’ouneain rou have (cen aC
_ HIr. Boyles (Which ras oF my makins upon his
detire) hath beem (0 plealine co rou as tomake
rou desire t0 sec my description chereat, I CanHOL
doube but the Pame will bcas gratetul al(o, and Weii
receired by the Publick, especially irhen cher MaII
therein And a remedy For one oE the grearest incon-
reniencesof Forcing Pumps, Wrtrich arc oE (0 oreat
ulc For raisins oF mater, and quenching oF Ares. Phis
rasthe occalion ot my Pending rou this present de
seription, irhich rould noc hare been thus prolix
had it been only tor vour (eIF.
Inthe Figure then A A is the Recepcacle or body
oF the Fountain caretul Podcred in aIl places, BB is
the PumP, C. C the Pluo Or Forcer, Da Pipe in the
middle oF the Plug, Wrhich is pertectir sut and Rop-
Ded irhen the Plate F P is Forced dorn upon it, F F
is the Plate wich a hole in che midale, uxon rhichis
Todered a Pipe P, irhich Perres For a handle tomove
the Plug up and donn.
Ois a Cock acthetop oF the Pipe, Wrhich serres
to moderate the Tetto or stream.
HHis a Valre ac the boccom of the Pump, irtich
openeth outmard For the passage oE the ater out ot
thc Dump intothe P’ountain or Receptacle.
TTis aCrOIS at the top oF the Plus cohinderche
elate E P. From beins dramn or leparated 100 Far
Trom