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1. That he had a very convenient mill within half a mile of his house, turned by a current from a large river, and sufficient for his own family as well as a great number of his tenants that about seven years ago a club of these projectors came to him with proposals to destroy this mill, and build another on the side of that mountain, on the long ridge whereof a long canal must be cut for a repository of water, to be conveyed up by pipes and engines to supply the mill because the wind and air upon a height agitated the water, and thereby made it fitter for motion and because the water, descending a declivity, would turn the mill with half the current of a river whose course is more upon a level.
2. Godalming is an amateur fitter himself, and evidently it was he who put the launch in trim again.
3. Don Quixote begged their permission to take his departure that same day, inasmuch as for a vanquished knight like himself it was fitter he should live in a pig-sty than in a royal palace.