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be the confequence, and the markets fink, to the 

 difappointment of all thofe who are fuppofed unv/ar- 

 rantably to withhold their ftore to raife its price. 



It behoves every individual to oppofe iniquity like 

 this, and to contribute what in him lies, to remedy 

 the prefent evil. Impreffed with this idea, I prefent 

 jny mite at the flirine of the publick, wifliing it may 

 prove an acceptable gift, and be put to immediate 

 trial. 



It is a fimple, cheap, and, I truft, efficacious me- 

 thod of ventilating grain whilft confined on ftiip- 

 board ; fufficient, I prefume, to keep it fweet and 

 marketable, after fuflaining a tedious voyage. 



May I folicit the Bath Society, to whom I have 

 the honour to belong, and to whom I (land indebted 

 for pad favours, to take the plan under their confi- 

 deration; it's fimplicity, to mert of their fenfe and 

 knowledge, will recommend rather than difcredit it. 

 It's powers indeed may be doubted ; but when in- 

 formed from me, that air-pumps of a like nature, 

 in a more complicated machine, have performed their 

 office to expectation, J trufl: . the Society will credit 

 my aflertion. 



If, on attention to its parts, delineated and de- 

 fcribed in the inclofed ftieets, it ftiould be their opi- 

 nion that an engine thus conftrufted is applicable tQ 

 the purpofe defigned, their patriotick feelings will be 

 gratified, when I requefl them to communicate the 

 plau to the Guild of Merchants at Briflol, among 



whom 



