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MEMOIR OK THOMAS BEWICK. 



to prevent forgery ; and, I think, as he was no 

 artist himself, he should not have taken the credit 

 either of inventor or executor of any of these 

 devices, nor have turned the profit arising from 

 them to his own private account. Long before the 

 commissioners were appointed to investigate the 

 business of forgeries, I got engaged in another 

 work on my own account. 



