Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

NEW-YORK STATE.

New-York, June 26. A certain Peter Belin, of South-Carolina, has with much labour, attention, hazard and expence, discovered and introduced into that State, three several principles of water works: one to overflow with water the surface of any tract of land, twenty six feet (or more) above the level of any river or water course, at a cheap, easy and expeditious rate. Another, to drain sunken or low overflowed lands down to any depth, and to throw water up to any height, from one to two hundred feet perpendicular. And also a certain other machine that will, in eighteen months, or two years at farthest, freshen any salt marsh land, so as to make it fit for the culture of any kind of produce, suitable for the climate of Carolina, and at the same time to beat out rice to grind, or saw lumber in a certain, regular, constant and easy manner: All of which are constructed upon plain, easy and simple principles, and may be built at a moderate expence, and will be of great utility.

The legislature of South-Carolina have vested in him the sole and exclusive right and liberty of erecting, building, constructing, and vending, within that State, the said three several water-works, during the term of fourteen years.