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public, accompanied with drawings, and all the details 

 that shall be necessary in order to give the most satis- 

 factory account of the result of the experiment. 



These investigations will be the more interesting, and 

 their results more generally useful, as the discovery of a 

 mine of pit-coal in the neighbourhood of Munich, which 

 is now worked with success, has put it in my power to 

 use coal as fuel, as well as wood and turf, in the experi- 

 ments I shall make in burning lime in this kiln. 



For the information of those who may be disposed to 

 engage in these pursuits, I have published the annexed 

 sketch of the lime-kiln in question, which is now actually 

 building (see Plate VI.). I thought it right to do this, 

 that we might start fair; and I can assure my competitors 

 in this race, that I shall feel no ill-will on seeing them 

 get before me. 



If I do not deceive myself, the laudable exertions of 

 others afford me almost as much pleasure as my own 

 pursuits ; at least I am quite certain that when I can 

 flatter myself that I have had any even the smallest 

 share in exciting those exertions, the satisfaction I 

 feel in contemplating them is inexpressible. 



