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NMRPEACOCES FILTERING-MACHINE.

Ul [Tù an early Number of this Magazine, an account was’ inſe M PEeacockK's very ingenious contrivance of a FILTERI TE, y ng | But, an apparatus ot this nature 1s applicable to lo many œcumcnical | 7 An API á EP D | púrpoles, and thoſe ſo unportaBßt, that we have thought it our duy to give place to the tollowing communication from that Gentleman, in which, and in the annexed E'yraving, dur Readers wil find tne adinirabie utility of the Filtering-Machin| more atisfac@torily explained than before. We doubt not'but the article will be generally acceptable.] o 4 bY Deſcription of a FiltÆFing-Ma: duce 20,000 Gallons in every 24 hours 3a quantity jufjic1 to{ubbly 200 hauſes, ri Ee Pa 2- j E 1j--/ /uppofing each houje to conſume 100 garans per Gay. A, TP RICK or fone baſis or foundation, conftruled fo as to bé ſectire from any partial ſeitlement. — i PAL B, Stone pavement, bedded in water-proof mortar or good 5 5

Dutch terras. C, Thé walls forming the‘ſides and„ends of the vefel to be perfeÂly water-tight.: | D, Cavity to receive the turbid water. E, Blacks of ſtone’ or marble, bedded in water-proof mortar, to form the cavity or chamber D.#"

F, Stone pavémènr,&c. to be bedded in water-proof mortar | upon‘the blocks E; theſe ſtones to be laid o chat the inter- vals between them and: between their ends and ſides and the ends and ſides of the veſſel, are not to exeed I1-I2th of an inch in breadth,

17 G, Chamber for the filtering-medium, to be elevated as per plate, little more or leſs above the level, to facilitate the exclu-

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ſion of th&äir at the upper-end, and of the ſediment at the lewer end; to be 14 feet long and 3 feet wide in the clear(or there abouts), and 9 inches high.; H, Stone pavement of the- ſame nature as thoſe deſcribed by | the letter F. | I, Blocks of ſtone,&c. the ſame as thoſe deiícribed by the | letter E. ¿

K, Chamber or cavity for the filtered water.

L M N, Courſes of paving-ítones,&c.’; the courſe L to be bedded on the blocks I, and jointed with water-proof mortar z and the other courſcs to be bedded and jointed in water-proof mortar.

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