e feet from the bent end, it receives, on a pin,
three horizontal bars of iron, which at their other end lay hold of one
corner of a quadrantal crank (like a bell crank) moving in a vertical
plane, to the other corner of which is hooked the vertical handle of
the pump. The crank turns on its point as a centre, by a pin or pivot
passing through it. The horse moving the lever horizontally in a circle,
every point of the lever describes a horizontal circle. That which
receives the three bars, describes a circle of six feet in diameter.
It gives a stroke then of six feet to the handle of each pump, at each
revolution.

_Blois. Orleans_. June 9, 10. At Blois, the road leaves the river, and
traverses the hills, which are mostly reddish, sometimes gray, good
enough, in vines, corn, saintfoin. From Orleans to the river Juines, at
Etampes, it is a continued plain of corn, and saintfoin, tolerably good,
sometimes gray, sometimes red. From Etampes to Etrechy, the country is
mountainous and rocky, resembling that of Fontainebleau. _Quere_. If it
may not be the same vein?

LETTER LVIII.--TO WILLIAM CARMICHAEL, June 14, 1787

TO WILLIAM CARMICHAEL.

Paris, June 14, 1787.

Dear Sir,

Having got back to Paris three days ago, I resume immediately the
correspondence with which you have been pleased to honor me. I wish I
could have begun it with more agreeable information than that furnished
me by Mr. Grand, that the funds of the United States here are exhausted,
and himself considerably in advance; and by the board of treasury at New
York, that they have no immediate prospect of furnishing us supplies. We
are thus left to shift for ourselves, without previous warning. As soon
as they shall replenish Mr. Grand's hands, I will give you notice, that
you may recommence your usual drafts on him; unless the board should
provide a separate fund for you, dependant on yourself alone, which I
have strongly and repeatedly pressed on them, in order to remove the
indecency of suffering your drafts to pass through any intermediate hand
for payment.

My letters from America came down to the 24th of April. The disturbances
in the Eastern States were entirely settled. I do not learn that
the government had made any examples. Mr. Hancock's health being
re-established, the want of which had occasioned him to resign the
government of Massachusetts, he has been re-elected to the exclusion of
Governor Bowdoin. New York still refuses to pass t