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"death, a card which contained the fame remark, but in a 

 more abridged form, and by fimple indication. As it offers 

 a variety of examples and conceptions of the fame nature as 

 thofe which I have given, though neverthelefs different, I 

 fhall here give them verbatim : 



Note ofG.L* Lefage, 



" Methods of (hewing that this confequence does not 



follow : 

 Expanfionand *t i, pour fingers of one hand introduced more or lefs be^ 

 i^'of theh'ands-^^^^" ^^® ^^^^ intervals of the fingers of the other hand, 

 a. Combs, &c. " 2, The fame with a couple of bruthes, or cards, or 



combs. 



3. Cotton, &c. '* 3. Carded cotton, or hair, and foap lather. 



4. Snow. " 4. Snow. 



5. Ofcillation. " 5. Agitation or ofcillation, which renders the fame par- 



ticles alternately contiguous and feparate more than a thoufand 

 times per minute.'' 



Condufion* 



The perufal of this note determined me to publifli mine; 

 not only becaufe I found niyfelf authorized by this coinci- 

 dence, but alfo to render a firft homage to the memory of a 

 philofopher no lefs modeft than ingenious, and to begin in 

 fome rerpe6l to execute his will, by publifiiing at leaft one of 

 his notes without making any change. The laft conception 

 offered in this lafl: Qiort note, will probably induce fome phi- 

 lofophers to refiedl again upon this fubje6^, and may perhaps 

 lead them towards the opinions of the writer. 



Member of the Royal Society of London, and of feveral other 

 learned Societies, died at Geneva, the 28th Brumaire, in the year 

 XII. (Nov. 19, 1803). His principal writings have not yet been 

 publifhed. I fhall foon give a fhort notice, as well as fome details 

 of his literary life, proper to facilitate the perufal of his works, and 

 eftabliih tbfiir originality. P. 



Accouj\t 



