Invented by John Cross, a laborer, while working there.
It is the cause of a good deal of curiosity on the part of travellers passing along, and observing wheels revolving in the river, evidently driving some machinery which they cannot discover conveniently, as they are driving pumps low down in the quarry beds. Good building stone as well as stone for the perpetual kilns are obtained convenient to two lines of railway depots and sidings.
Here in the river you descry
Wheels revolve to keep quarries dry;
Elsewhere such pumps are drove by steam,
But here by current of the stream.
Easy it the water carries,
And leaves dry the beds of quarries;
Continuous at perpetual kiln,
You withdraw lime and with stone fill.