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and cabinets the books and the humble apparatus of 

 those days. He must have remembered these scenes 

 when he so magnanimously made the College his re- 

 siduary legartee, that through it he might forever be of 

 service to science. 



The American Academy has five sheets of manu- 

 script drawings believed to have been made by Count 

 Rumford. They were pasted upon a bandbox belonging 

 to his daughter, and were for many years in Boston at 

 the house of Mr. James F. Baldwin. This box was pre- 

 sented to the Academy by Mrs. Baldwin. The draw- 

 ings have been carefully removed and preserved. They 

 were probably brought home by the Countess among 

 her father's effects, and put to a womanly use. They 

 are as follows : 



1. A military drawing representing field-works and 

 a village, with streams of water and various eminences. 



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2. Two drawings, an elevation and section of a 

 mortar and its bed with an elevating screw. 



3. Four drawings of muskets and bayonets. 



4. Architectural drawings, marked in pencil " Plan 

 and section of the kitchen in the House of Industry." 

 It represents also two large boilers with their brick- 

 .work settings and smoke-flues. 



5. " Third floor House of Industry." 



With these, from the same box, there is a blank form 

 in- manuscript of a " Table of Returns and Delivery of 

 Unprepared Yarn," dated July, 1795. 



The drawings of the mortar and muskets are done 



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with great skill, and are carefully shaded. 



His daughter's experiences and movements for several 

 years after the death of her father are to be traced 

 chiefly in another set of letters, which she preserved, 

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