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of fire from ice by a metal white as silver, and 

 referring certain laws of motion of the sea to the 

 moon, that the physical inquirer is seldom disposed 

 to assert, confidently, on any abstruse subjects belong- 

 ing to the order of natural things, and still less so on 

 those relating to the more mysterious relations of 

 moral events and intellectual natures. 



