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until they have undergone hisfurther investigation, 

 and submitted to those processes necessary to 

 render them susceptible of useful purposes. But 

 still even these are not sufficient to supply all the 

 wants, which his active mind is constantly creating ; 

 or to keep pace with the numerous inventions, 

 to which the fertile ingenuity and emulation of his 

 competitors give rise. Foreign countries must 

 be explored to find out new articles, by which 

 his varying arts are to be perfected and increased; 

 and the contrivances of other nations are to be 

 consulted, to ascertain how far they will admit 

 of such modifications or improvements, as may 

 afford a greater scope for his own inventive 

 faculties. 



In possession of all these various means, what 

 vast and comprehensive results have not been the 

 consequence? 



Noble and magnificent edifices, upon very 

 many of which, the long hand of time has made 

 no impression, bespeak the grandeur of his de- 

 signs, and the industry and labour bestowed on 

 their execution. Stately vessels, complete in all 

 their parts, and equipped with everv requisite, 

 traverse the ocean in all directions; and by the 

 exactness and security with which they perform 

 voyages the most distant and dangerous, evince 

 the ingenuity displayed in their construction, 

 and the accuracy and the nicety with which the 

 effects to be produced, have been calculated. 



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