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{pinning, fewing, knitting ; and of the men in thofe ma- 
nufactures that require little bodily exercife, cannot well 
be performed where the fingers are numbed with cold: 
Thofe people, therefore, in cold weather, are induced to go 
to bed fooner, and lie longer in a morning, than they 
would do if they could have good fires or warm ftoves to 
fit by ; and their hours of work are not fufficient to pro- 
duce the means of comfortable fubfiftence. Thofe pub- 
lic works, therefore, fuch as roads, canals, &c. by which 
fuel may be brought cheap into fuch countries from diftant 
places, are of great utility ; and thofe who promote them 
may be reckoned among the benefators of mankind. 
I have great pleafure in having thus complied with your 
requeft, and in the refle€tion that the friendfhip you ho- 
nour me with, and in which I have ever been fo happy, 
has continued fo many years without the fmalleft inter- 
ruption. Our diftance from each other is now augment- 
ed, and nature muft foon put an end to the poflibility of 
my continuing our correfpondence: But if confcioufnefs 
and memory remain in a future ftate, my efteem and re- 
fpect for you, my dear friend, will be everlafting. 
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