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sation to the extent of its acquisitions and ability j^ and to 

 the great surprise and diversion of the parents, who ne- 

 ver imagined any such thing. Persuasion; promises; 

 lies; meumandtuum; individual character, as to bene- 

 volence or its reverse from physiognomy, and as to mo- 

 rals from the behaviour ; preference of other infants from 

 similarity of action; jests; mockery; theatrical simula- 

 tion in the management of dolls, puppets, &c. &c. — these, 

 and a prodigious number of other compound associations, 

 occupy the minds of infants long before the expiration 

 of the first six months of their existence. 

 I remain, Sir, 



Your constant reader, 



R.B. 



VI I. 



Repetition of the Experiment in uhich Acids and Akali 

 are produced in pure Water by Galvanis7n, (no Ani- 

 mal or Vegetable Matter^ nor Oxidable Metal being 

 present) by Mr. Charles Sylvester. 



Mr. Nicholson. 

 Sir, 



Experiment JLN your number for June last, I communicated some 



tion ^of "^dcalT experiments tending to prove the production of the mu- 



&c-fromwater riatic acid and an alcali, from pure water, by means of 



by galvanism IS galvanism. I had not then an opportunity of giving you 



the whole of the experiments I had made in this dubious 



research. The first way in which I made the experiment 



was by bringing two wires of platina, or gold, from the 



two ends of the trough Into a portion of pure water in 



one vessel, but I never produced the smallest quantity of 



muriatic acid. I am not surprised at Mr. Wilkinson's 



finding the same result. 



Muriatic acid ^^^' ^^^^ ^"^^ ^'^' P^^hiani made their experiments in 



cannot be pro- the same w^ay, and it is my opinion they never produced 



^^le'^veslcl.* """ t^^ muriatic acid, nor an alcali. 



If each of the platina wires be made to terminate in a 

 But the experl- separate portion of pure water, and these portions of wa- 

 Sscparaud ^^^ ^^ afterwards connected together by an animal sub- 



