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John Farey, Esq. 10 August, 1831.  broad wheels of the Steam Waggon would do no injury to the road, whereas in heavy waggons, drawn slowly by horses, the horses do far much more injury by digging and scraping with their feet than is done by the horse in Coaches and Vans travelling quickly; because the waggon horses having a heavy pull to make, must choose places in the road where they can place their feet in depressions in order to get hold; hence on a good smooth road they slip and scrape up the surface. 



you been long conversant with Steam Engines?—Twenty-six years ago I invented a high pressure Steam Engine and a locomotive Engine, and since that time Boulton and Watt's Engines have been thrown aside in Cornwall, and the high pressure Steam Engines, with the improvements upon the boilers I have made, have been throwing Boulton and Watt's Engines constantly out of use, there is not one of those now in use in the mines. The average of the duty of Boulton and Watt's Engines, about twenty years ago, was taken by Mr. Gilbert, which gave, perhaps, about seventeen millions of pounds, lifted a foot high with a bushel of coals; and sometime after that, Mr. Gilbert made a Report in the Transactions of the Royal Society, that he had found one of my high pressure Engines in Cornwall was doing seventy-five millions; and in the same Report be stated, that they were doing nearly as seven to twenty-eight or 