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and regular as those adopted in military investments, it is not 

 likely that we can (with all our efforts of industry) reach the 

 desired MAGAZINE OF PHYSICAL KNOWLEDGE, under a lapse 

 of time that would dishearten the most undaunted and per- 

 severing amongst us to contemplate. 



Since MECHANICAL Science has flourished by attaining the 

 increased velocity of LOCOMOTION, I am desirous to learn, may 

 we not search for, and find, the GENIUS of a BRUNEL in our 

 PHYSICAL SECTION, to give us an IMPETUS ? some practical 

 Analytical Operator of eminence, who, not content with 

 MINUTIAE, will afford us experimentally, and with mathe- 

 matical accordance to TRUTH, the grand, the sublime simplicity 

 of a System of Physics, which will expose, overturn, and 

 discard, the irrational complexity, that is but too apparent in 

 our present code of elementary, or undecompounded consti- 

 tuents. 



It is to seek the aid of such a GENIUS, (and many there are 

 to be found amongst ourselves, and our pre-eminent and distin- 

 guished brothers in philosophy on the continent?) that I have 

 thus stepped out of my sphere, to intrude my views and 

 opinions on the notice of the Public. 



THE AUTHOR. 



