Salusbury, Thomas
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Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I)
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1667
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And ſo great is the eſteem that I have for that which I am now
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about to ſay touching this particular, that I am content that all
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the reſt of my Diſcourſe be rejected; provided, that that be per
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fectly underſtood, which I am hereafter to propoſe, I holding
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and knowing it to be a main Principle, upon which all that is
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founded that can be ſaid either well or handſomely on this parti
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probable, but this hits the mark as full as can be deſired, arriving
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at the higheſt degree of certainty.</
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rene Prince, and to the Right Honourable the Preſident of the
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Lords the Commiſſioners of the ^{*}Sewers, written a Treatiſe of the
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Meaſure of the waters that move, in which I Geometrically de
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monſtrate and declare this buſineſſe, and they who ſhall have
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well underſtood the ground of my Diſcourſe, will reſt fully ſa
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tisfied with that which I am now about to propoſe: But that all
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may become rhe more eaſie, I will more briefly explicate and
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declare ſo much thereof as I have demonſtrated in the Diſcourſe,
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which will ſuffice for our purpoſe: And if that ſhould not be
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enough, we have alwayes the experiment of a very eaſie and
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cheap way to clear up the whole buſineſſe. </
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will take the boldneſſe to affirm, that in caſe there ſhould not for
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the preſent any deliberation be made concerning this affair, ac
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cording to my opinion; yet nevertheleſſe it will be, at ſome
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time or other; or if it be not, things will grow worſe and
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worſe.</
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take care of the
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Lakes and other
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Aquatick affairs.</
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that it being required, as it is generally uſed, to meaſure the wa
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ters of a River, its breadth and its depth is taken, and theſe two
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dimenſions being multiplied together, the product is affirmed to
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be the quantity of that River: As for example, if a River ſhall
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be 100. feet broad, and 20. feet high, it will be ſaid, that that
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River is 2000 feet of Water, and ſo if a Ditch ſhall be 15. feet
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broad, and 5. feet high, this ſame Ditch will be affirmed to be
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75. feet of Water: And this manner of meaſuring Running
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Water hath been uſed by the Ancients, and by Moderns, with
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no other difference, ſave onely that ſome have made uſe of the
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Foot, others of the Palme, others of the Brace, and others of
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other meaſures.</
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>Now becauſe that in obſerving theſe Waters that move, I fre
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quently found, that the ſame Water of the ſame River was in
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ſome ſites of its Chanel pretty big, and in others much leſſe,
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not arriving in ſome places to the twentieth, nor to the hundreth
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part of that which it is ſeen to be in other places; therefore this
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vulgar way of meaſuring the Waters that move, for that they did </
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