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may be brought into use, be thought wo*s«thy the Notice .of the Legislature, andmeet with the desired Success•; at lease, Iam certain, there cast be no Hazard inTrial, as I am well convinced, should itfall any thing short of what I assert, itwill in no respect be inferior to their pre-sent Preparations; therefore cannot fee anyObjection there can be against trying theExperiment: I chose to express myself inthis plain intelligible Manner, as it has ge-nerally been found to have more Weightwith common mechanical People, by whichMeans many things have been brought intouse, that could not have been effected by st.Chain of the finest philofopical Reasoning.

It is my sincerest Wish, that this Experi-ment may became as general as it will befound useful, not regarding the Censurethat may be cast. upon me by narrow-minded, avaritious Persons, who will beready to fay, if it was capable of answer-ing all the Ends I propose by it, it wouldbe of such prodigious Consequence, that Imight have raised from it a competentFortune s but let it suffice,, as an Answerto all such Cavillers, that my.present Si-tuation in Life will not pestdit me to pro-secute such an Undertaking on my ownBottom, as it might be a Work of manyYears, if not an Age, before one singlePerlop could in all Probability be able to

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