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digious number of times they are repeated. 

 It would cost much more than one hundred 

 thousand eggs, to have only fifty thousand 

 of them sat on by hens ; that is to say, 

 above two thousand five hundred livres, in 

 those countries where eggs are sold for six 

 sous a dozen. It would not cost us nearly 

 so much, to have the same number of eggs 

 warmed after the Egyptian manner ; the 

 whole expence, indeed, would belittle more 

 than the salary of one or two men, for 

 three weeks or a month at most." 



This indefatigable advocate then pro- 

 ceeds to adduce a circumstance, in con- 

 sequence of which the inhabitants of the 

 European countries, from their greater 

 advance in the conveniences of life, have 

 an advantage, would they deign to make 

 use of it, even over the Egyptians them- 

 selves, in the power of multiplying, with- 

 out additional expence, the process for 

 hatching eggs with common heat. He 

 says, every oven which has its arch cover- 

 ed over, affords a chicken-stove almost 

 ready made ; whence it is easy to judge, 



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