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rations zvith it. I shall with great satisfac- 

 tion avail myself of the aid those Hints af-> 

 ford me, but as I shall, in several instances, 

 enlarge my own original Report, I conceive 

 it would tend to break the chain of my argu- 

 ment, and render it less intelligible, were I 

 to blend these different opinions with it; at 

 the same time, these Remarks will speak bet- 

 ter for themselves standing distinct. I mean, 

 therefore, to publish such as are perfect in 

 themselves, or too long for Notes, in an Ap- 

 pendix at the end of the Report, and such as 

 are in the nature of short detached Observa- 

 tions, I shall subjoin at the end of each Sec- 

 tion, taking the liberty to comment upon them 

 zvith the same freedom that has been taken 

 with vie, but not any farther than may be ne- 

 cessary to illustrate the great and important 

 object in question; thus we shall stand in the 

 nature of evidence, and the Public will be the 

 'impartial Jury to decide upon the merits of 

 our different ideas. And here I take the li- 

 berty to request the Reader to follow the full 

 drift of my argument, through the whole of 

 each Section, before he has recourse to the 

 Notes; for though they will afterwards 

 strengthen and elucidate the subject, they will 

 be apt to create perplexity, if recourse be had 



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