To make a Fire-Fountain for the water.
To make a Fire-Fountain for the Water.
Provide a circular float three feet diameter; in the middle fix a round post four feet high, about two inches diameter; round this post fix three circular wheels made of thin wood. Place the largest within two or three inches of the bottom, which should be not much less than the float. The second wheel must be about two feet two, and fixed two feet from the first. The third wheel must be sixteen inches diameter, and fixed within six inches of the top of the post. Then take eighteen four or eight-ounce cases of brilliant fire, and place them round the first wheel with their mouths upwards, and inclining downwards; on the second wheel place thirteen cases in the same manner as those on the first; on the third place eight more in the same manner as before, and on the top of the post fix a gerbe; then clothe the cases with leaders, so that both they and the gerbes may take fire at the same time. Before firing this work it is best to try it in the water to see whether the float is properly made, so as to keep the fountain upright.
Aquatic exhibitions are almost as numerous as those of the other kind, but we consider it entirely useless to describe more than we have already done; as so many of them depend on the taste and ingenuity of the practitioner.