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will continue, while its motion is maintained, to produce 

 the same series of natural numbei's ? Some minds are 

 so constituted, that after passing the first hundred terms, 

 they will be satisfied that they are acquainted with the 

 law. After seeing five hundred terms few will doubt, 

 and after the fifty thousandth term the propensity to 

 believe that the succeeding term will be fifty thousand 

 and one will be almost irresistible. That tei-m vyill be 

 fifty thousand and one ; and the same regular succession 

 will continue ; tlie five millionth and the fifty millionth 

 term will still appear in their expected order, and one 

 unbroken chain of natural numbei's will pass before your 

 eyes, from one up to one hundred million. 



'' True to the vast induction which has been made, the 

 next succeeding term will be one hundred million and 

 one ; but the next number presented by the rim of the 

 wheel, instead of being one Jiundred million and two, 

 is one hundred million ten tJionsand and two. The 

 whole series from the commencement being thus — 



