258 ROWELLING. 



tion of OsMER, that '' the works of the Di- 

 vine Artist" had left no room for rectifica- 

 tion ; (see p. 153) that nothing on niy part 

 can be required to excite the risible emotions; 

 though, I must confess, it is with the greatest 

 reluctance so fair a temptation is rehnquisli- 

 ed, to play a little upon the retentive im- 

 perfections of one predecessor, and the me- 

 thodistical enthusiasm of the other. 



But notwithstanding the direct and repeat- 

 ed contradictions we find dispersed through 

 the volume of Bracken, (probably occa- 

 sioned bp his long and inconsistent digres- 

 sions) it must be acknowledged, with the 

 strictest adherence to justice and merit, that 

 no one succeeding writer has^since started a 

 thought or broached an opinion upon the 

 operation of rowelling, or its effects, but 

 what has been an exact literal description, 

 or oblique echo, of what originated with him 

 upon the subject. For upon a minute exa- 

 mination of the various publications of dif- 

 ferent writers, we find t])at a very superficial 

 investigation, and no additional explanation, 

 has been condescendingly bestowed upon a 

 process that is even now held in the highest 



