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mentary grant of a grofs fum to be expended in building 
apartments for a publick cabinet of mineralogy, and a chemical 
Jaboratory under the fame roof; and fthould alfo receive fuch 
annual fums as would be neceffary to preferve them in re- 
pair, and to give to a competent number of travelling ftu- 
dents, to be feleCted by the board, honorary ftipends. 
Finatty, that the care of procuring, arranging and preferv- 
ing f{pecimens, and the power of permitting ftudents to examine 
them, and to enjoy the ufe of the chemical! laboratory, under 
fuch reftriGions as might feem advifeable, fhould be entrufted. 
to this board. 
Turis plan would certainly be fomewhat expenfive; but 
when we confider the engines that are to be put in motion, 
and the fkill and integrity of the perfons to whom the direc- 
tion of them is propofed to be entrufted, perhaps it may be 
allowed that few could be devifed more direClly conducive to. 
national opulence. 
Of infirution in manufactures. 
Next to the cultivation of the earth, fociety is moft bene-. 
fited by the manufacture of its produce. How. manufactures 
may be beft promoted, and what kinds ought to be princi- 
pally encouraged in a fyftem of national education, I fhall 
now endeavour to .afcertain. 
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