94 Mr. Genet’s Vindication. 
Art. X¥.—Vindication of the Memorial on the upward: 
force of Fluids ; by E. C. Gener. 
Prospect Hitt, Town or GREEN- 
BUSH, November 12, 1826. ; 
TO THE EDITOR. 
Sir,—I have received with infinite gratitude the numbers: 
of your valuable Journal, containing two extracts of my Me 
morial on the upward forces of fluids, written by Dr. Pasca- 
lis. I ought to have much sooner acknowledged your kind- 
ness in forwarding these numbers, and your extreme indul- 
gence in allowing that my feeble essays should be noticed in 
such a scientific record. But, sir, as farming is my usual av- 
ocation, I will not disguise, that having wasted too much time 
for an agriculturist, (who is also the head of a large family,) in 
experimenting, and in writing and publishing the book above 
mentioned, i i 
as in promo | —— or the im 
ment of the navigation of the majestic Hudson, which flows 
along my meadows, I have since, almost exclusively, exerted 
myself to replace the time which an invincible inclination for 
philosophical and economical subjects, had appropriated to 
more pleasing though less profitable pursuits. My laborious du- 
ties are now fulfilled, all my crops are gathered, a bountiful Pro- 
other magazines, in which also my late essays have been noti- 
ced, and I find that several of those periodical works, includ- 
ing yours, have treated me with that benevolence and hospi- 
tality which denotes the friends of mankind and of the useful 
extensive experiments than those which I have been able to 
make, should prove who is in the right, the author or the 
critics. But as we are always a little blind to the faults of 
our children, I cannot resist the natural impulse which excites 
me to repel, if practicable, the incorrect statements and un- 
fair reports of my theories and experiments, pre-eminently 
made by the editors of the Boston Journal of Philosophy 
and the Arts. You must not imagine, however, that I am 
displeased to find that those gentlemen have endeavoured te 
