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The Scientific Magazine, And Freemasons' Repository.
THS SCIENTIFICMAGAZINE, AND FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY ,
FOR JUNE , 1797 . ACCOUNT OF THE
BUILDINGS ON MILL-BANK , HEAR KANELAGH , INTENDED FOR A MALT DISTILLERY .
[ WITH AN ELEGANT VIEW . ]
HPHE ground on which these works stand , was originally cultivated ¦* - as a kitchen-garden , the property of the Eig ht Hon . Earl Gros-Venor , who granted a long lease of it to a gentleman , for the purpose of erecting- a very capacious Malt-Distillery ; and which being laid out , and the walls raised in part , nearly to the surface of the ground , a large cubic base of Stone was laid , in the presence of a eat concourse of spectators ; and deemed the first Stone .
In a sunken part of the upper surface was placed a brass plate , on Which was engraved this inscription : 'This PLATE is deposited in the FIRST STONE of the Foundation of an ' extensive range of Buildings intended for a MALT-DISTILLERY , 'in the firm of WILLIAM TATE and COMPANY : and was laid on the ' 13 th of March 1794 by Mr . John Hilbertof Wandsworth .
, , , BENJAMIN COOPER , Architect . JOHN RENNIE , Engineer . ' The works were then carried on with the greatest alacrity , and the whole were completely covered in before the end of the year . In 1795 the internal part was proceeded with , in the centre of which is a most capital STEAM ENOINE , erected by Messrs . Boulton ancl
Watt , on their well known principle , and is the largest in England-. The facility by which it is managed is such , that a child may in an instant either set it going , or stop its proceeding . The Boilers are of an immense size , in the form of the largest tilted Waggon , but much larger . The Fly Wheels ( which are more than twenty feet in diameter ) were cast by the ingenious proprietor of the Falcon Iron Foundery , onBankside ; each wheel is ( exclusive of its rim )
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Scientific Magazine, And Freemasons' Repository.
THS SCIENTIFICMAGAZINE, AND FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY ,
FOR JUNE , 1797 . ACCOUNT OF THE
BUILDINGS ON MILL-BANK , HEAR KANELAGH , INTENDED FOR A MALT DISTILLERY .
[ WITH AN ELEGANT VIEW . ]
HPHE ground on which these works stand , was originally cultivated ¦* - as a kitchen-garden , the property of the Eig ht Hon . Earl Gros-Venor , who granted a long lease of it to a gentleman , for the purpose of erecting- a very capacious Malt-Distillery ; and which being laid out , and the walls raised in part , nearly to the surface of the ground , a large cubic base of Stone was laid , in the presence of a eat concourse of spectators ; and deemed the first Stone .
In a sunken part of the upper surface was placed a brass plate , on Which was engraved this inscription : 'This PLATE is deposited in the FIRST STONE of the Foundation of an ' extensive range of Buildings intended for a MALT-DISTILLERY , 'in the firm of WILLIAM TATE and COMPANY : and was laid on the ' 13 th of March 1794 by Mr . John Hilbertof Wandsworth .
, , , BENJAMIN COOPER , Architect . JOHN RENNIE , Engineer . ' The works were then carried on with the greatest alacrity , and the whole were completely covered in before the end of the year . In 1795 the internal part was proceeded with , in the centre of which is a most capital STEAM ENOINE , erected by Messrs . Boulton ancl
Watt , on their well known principle , and is the largest in England-. The facility by which it is managed is such , that a child may in an instant either set it going , or stop its proceeding . The Boilers are of an immense size , in the form of the largest tilted Waggon , but much larger . The Fly Wheels ( which are more than twenty feet in diameter ) were cast by the ingenious proprietor of the Falcon Iron Foundery , onBankside ; each wheel is ( exclusive of its rim )