A ROAD OR WAY FOR PASSAGE ACROSS RIVERS, CREEKS, AND WATERS, AND FROM SHORE TO SHORE THEREOF, WITHOUT STOPPAGE OR IMPEDIMENT TO THE CONSTANT NAVIGATION THEREOF, AND ACROSS RAVINES, FISSURES, CLIFFS, AND CHASMS, AND OF A NEW METHOD OR METHODS OF CON- STRUCTING ARCHES OR APERTURES FOR THE RUNNING AND FLOWING OF WATER THROUGH THE SAME OR UNDER BRIDGES, TO BE USED AND APPLIED IN THE CON
Year: 1817

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN JAMES
ALEXANDER MCCARTHY, of Milbank Street, in the Parish of Saint Margaret,
Westminster, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, in and by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Twenty-sixth day of August last, for Himself, His heirs and
successors, did give and grant unto me, the said John James Alexander
McCarthy, His special licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that
I, the said John James Alexander McCarthy, my executors, administrators.
and assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by my and their
deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said John
James Alexander McCarthy, my executors, administrators, and assigns, shoukl
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also within all His Majesty's Colonies and Planta-
tions abroad, his Invention of "A ROAD OR WAY FOR PASSAGE ACROSS RIVERS,
CREEKS, AND WATERS, AND FROM SHORE TO SHORE THEREOF, WITHOUT STOPPAGE
OR IMPEDIMENT TO THE CONSTANT NAVIGATION THEREOF, AND ACROSS RAVINES,
FISSURES, CLIFFS, AND CHASMS, AND OF A NEW METHOD OR METHODS OF CON-
STRUCTING ARCHES OR APERTURES FOR THE RUNNING AND FLOWING OF WATER
THROUGH THE SAME OR UNDER BRIDGES, TO BE USED AND APPLIED IN THE CON-

page_text: .
STRUCTION OF THE BEFORE-MENTIONED ROAD OR WAY, AND OTHERWISE;" in which
said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said John
James Alexander McCarthy, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and
n what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled
in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by
the same, reference being thereto had, will more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John James Alexander McCarthy, do hereby describe and ascertain the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
by the plan or drawing in the margin of these Presents, and the following
description thereof (that is to say):-
My Invention is of a passage suspended in a river or in other water,
and to rise and sink therein, so that such passage shall remain at a distance
from the-surface of-the-water sufficient. to allow a ship or ships, or other
vessels, to pass over and above the said passage; and in order that the said
passage may be buoyant, the ends of the same are formed so as to make an
inclined plane from such parts of the passage over-which ships and vessels
may pass, and so as the exits or entrances of such passage project above the
surface of the water. The said inclined planes continue the said passage, and
connect the same with a floating bridge made in the usual manner; the whole
to be moved both above and below. The said passage may be formed in the
shape of a cylinder, or any other more convenient for the purpose, bent at
cach end to form the inclined planes, and may be made of iron or other
materials. The said passage is gravelled or may be paved as other roads.
Care must be taken to make the passage of such weight and substance as that
it will sink under the surface of the water to the required depth, and that the
inclination of the plane be such as to allow carriages to pass up and down the
same with safety and facility. The ends of the inclined planes are to be
sufficiently defended against injury from ships or vessels or other external
causes. The said passage must be placed in such part of the water and must
be so connected with the said floating bridge as will be most suitable for the
navigation. The parts of the bridge leading from the two shores to the said
passage are formed in the usual way.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Twenty-
sixth day of February, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and eighteen.
J. J. A. MACCARTHY. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twenty-sixth day of
February, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid John James Alexander
McCarthy came before our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknow-
ledged the Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained,
in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twenty-sixth day of
February, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid John James Alexander
McCarthy came before our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknow-
ledged the Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained,
in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped
according to the tenor of the Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the same Twenty-sixth day of February, in the year above