#22 Mr. Genet’s Reply to Dr. Jones. 
was mistaken, and if the settled facts and principles, upon 
which [ have built my system, were not i pomt; E de- 
up as farmers, attend to the business of our land an 
ills,) 1 am reduced to depend for the promotion of my im- 
_ provements upon public patronage, a yery precarious sup- 
“port indeed, particularly when the overwhelming power 0 
high steam is poured upon them. : 
ut, Sir, if the innumerable victims of the steam-engines 
- could raise their heads from their earthly or watery graves, 
their voices would urge to investigate and ascertain, dispas- 
ely, by actual experiment, if the cheap, simple, and 
stitute, which I offer in lieu of that expensive, intri- 
serous power, ought to be adopted, or consid- 
hs 2 of a philanthropist. 
cred as the eccentric dream of phil st. The unforta- 
