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of applying the force of men is entirely new. They step up a
kind of ladder which yields downwards to their weight each step they
take and the weight and to drive the pile is thereby raised.
Thus the men act with the whole of their weight and it is this
without any exertion but what is too p apparent for it to be possible
for them to skulk. I can venture to affirm that in practice one
quarter the number of men at present employed in this operation
will produce the same effect in the same time.

There are several subservient contrivances in this said Engine
which I shall not pretend to describe to you till I send you a
drawing of it which will not be till the Engine is at work.
I hope to shine forth with 2 or 3 more inventions in the course of
the winter; but I must tell you that I am of late too so much
occupied with ideas of a very different nature that it is well I have
been able to finish this said Pile Engine. My almost expiring
hopes are again revived. As to her love it is impossible I should
doubt of it and from her constancy & perseverance I have the greatest
expectations. The state she is in from what she suffers on my account,
thin, pale, with a cough apparently comsumptive, if it continues
much longer must make them her Parents dread the consequences of opposing
her inclinations. She has refused matches they have proposed to her and
has declared to them She never will marry any other than me. Add to all this

Identifier: | JB/539/462/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1783-11-14	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	462	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Samuel Bentham	Watermarks
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