been so used three times this summer.   It is a platform with 4 small rollers or wheels & two upright posts between which works a lever by a rope fastened to its shorter or heavier end.   At this end of ye longer arm is fixed a stool upon which sd Betsey was fastened by cord her gown tied fast around her feete.   The machine was then moved up to ye edge of ye pond, ye Rope was slackened by ye officer & ye woman was allowed to go down under ye water for ye space of half a minute.   Betsey had a stout stomach, & would not yield until she had allowed herself to be ducked 5 several times.   At length she cried piteously: 'Let me go!   Let me go!   by God's help I'll sin no more.'   Then they drew back ye machine, untied the Ropes & let her walk home in her wetted clothes, a hopefully penitent woman."