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the prejudices which oppose the more extensiveintroduction of improvements.

“ I will again beg leave to trespass upon thesame desirable medium, in eliciting some. further facts upon this subject, and pointingout from the information I have obtained theextensive danger still impended over the inha-bitants of the Northern mines, and more orless over every mine throughout the kingdom.

“ It is not any personal motive which inducesme to rest so much upon Dr. Clanny’s lamp,as I have not the honour to possess that gen-tleman’s acquaintance, further than from thecorrespondence arising from the publicationof our respective letters ; but from the assur-ance I feel that no invention yet in being iscalculated so greatly to diminish the recurrenceof explosion as his insulated lamp, I naturallyadvocate its adoption upon this principle ; andif I may be permitted to presume upon theconclusions arising from his writing, I feel nohesitation in ascribing the production of theapparatus in question, not only to the geniusof a philosophical and enlightened mind, butto motives of the most pure and benevolentphilanthrophy, which, awakened by the dread-ful miseries so frequently occurring in theneighbourhood of his residence, sought to