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July 2 1798
Sir
It would have given me real satisfaction to have had it in my power to inform you that the principles of your engine were likely to be considered by those the persons who study the principles of mechanics as an improvement addition to or even as an improvement of those already known as in that case I should have had great pleasure in communicating your drawing & the explanations annexd to the Royal Society in order to bring but Sir tho your Ideas are certainly ingenious (1) I have my doubts of your contrivance being new & moreover am of opinion that with a given power of water more effect can be produced by the means already in use than your engine is capable of That is a larger quantity of water can be lifted to a given hight or the same quantity to a greater hight in the same time.
This being my opinion Sir I have nothing left but to return your papers in order that if I am mistaken some one else to when you may set me right I have therefore seald them up & left them with your address upon them at my home in Soho Square where they will be deliverd to any person when you
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