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XX Life and writings of Count Humford. 



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their employments, and the modes used to overcome their awk- 

 wardness and reluctance, and reconcile them to their situation. 

 He acquaints us with the judicious means employed to excite their 

 emulation and encourage their industry, and gives many proofs 



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that the attempts made to render them diligent, comfortable and 

 comparatively happy, were fully successfuL He has given a full 

 discussion of t!ie various modes of producing large quantities of 

 nourishment from small and cheap materials ; and has gone into 

 a long examination of the comparative quantities of nutriment af- 

 forded by the common articles of diet, and of the different mode's 

 of preparing them to the greatest advantage. He has given a dis- 

 tinct essay upon a subject not usually much regarded in the main- 

 tenance of the poor — '* The pleasure of eating aud the means that 

 may be employed for increasing it."' 



Among the latest publications of this philosopher is memoir read 

 to the French Institute in 1811, on the means of improving the 

 construction of wheel carriages. In this paper he endeavours to 

 prove, that every description of coaches, chaises, wagons, &c. 

 may be rendered more easy to the rider and less laborious to the 

 horses, by employing wheels with a 



broad circumference, instead 



of the 



narrow or thin wheels now in use. For the several last 

 years of his life he rode in a carriage bavins; wheels of this kind. 



and 



atisfactorily 



most cases. It 



trated their 



broad 



perior ailvautag 



ill sink less frequently 

 one which is narrow- 



observed 



wheel in passing over 



into the cavities between th 

 This difference may even b 



d 



one 



of which are worn off by 





broad wheel will also sink less deeply than 



lo a soft or sandy road 



one. 



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