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that the different features of the place form a stri- kingly-fine whole, both grand and beautiful; the more interesting, when we consider that it is entirely the creation of modern years, formed by the com- bine d operation of taste, science, and wealth, out of a desolate heath, inhabited only by a colony of rabbits. The useful machine we have just mentioned, the steam-engine, was, you know, carried to its present
tate of perfection by Mr. James Watt, one of the partners in the Soho firm, a gentleman who pos-
- es ;es that rare comprehensiveness of mind, which
embraces with equal ease, and to its fullest extent, every subject on which the human intellect can be exercised, from the simplest to the most profound. Fie procured a patent for it in 1768, and seven years afterwards entering into partnership with Mr. Boulton, began to construct, steam-engines at Soho; .since when, the adoption of them has been general ail over the kingdom in mines and manu- factories:, to the incalculable saving of labour and money in the laborious :n\d expensive operations of both. The stupendous power of this machine may be best conceived by animadverting to one ol th m erected a few years since in Cornwall; which worked a pump of eighteen inches diameter, up- wards of six hundred feet high, at the rate of twelve strokes each seven feet long, in one minute.
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