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assistance, and (I liumbly hope after a sort) immediate 

 direction, I have been guided in that search to tread 

 in another path, then any other man that I can hear or 

 read of, did tread before me, yet with so good success, 

 that I have already erected one little Engine or great 

 Model at Lambathj able to give sufficient demonstration 

 to either Artist or any other person, that my Invention 

 is as useful and beneficial (let others say upon proof 

 how much more) as any other way of working hitherto 

 known or used. 



Having therefore brought it to the birth, I confess I 

 am pained to be delivered ; but want the help of some 

 good Neighbours, or rather the child being indeed 

 bom, and that kind and faithful Office performed by 

 your self, without whose help as the chief Instrument^ 

 I could hardly have brought it forth. The next care is 

 for a good Nurse, lest the Infant perish for want of 

 timely nourishment. And this also I hope to obtain 

 by your farther negotiation and assistance, that so this 

 talent may not be hid under a Bushel, but be imparted 

 for the general use of Mankind, and for the comfort of 

 all that Family, to whom this so hopeful an issue doth 

 belong. I must confess ingenuously, that if God as 

 the efficient cause, and your self as his proper Instru- 

 ment, had not (in a manner alone) supported and 

 encouraged both my spirit & hands from time to 

 time, there would have been little or nothing of it 

 extant at this time, if the undertaking had not quite 



