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had more time to employ myfelf 
[- xl J 
I have always enjoyed in ane Clis 
mate, Sees 
-On purpofe to avoid every cate 
of obitructing my mind in the clofe’ 
purfuit of the object I had in view, 
and in tracing Nature in its opera- 
tion ‘on this fubjeé&t, I difencaged 
myfelf from Bid noife of the me- 
ing interrupted by any body i in the 
contempla‘i ion of Nature. 
“This work is a part of the refult 
of above 500 experiments, all which 
were made in aeb than three 
ginning of Si Heat, working From 
morning sete night, | 3 From” thefe: 
Ceppritiedi ‘- sige 
might have been drawn) if T had - 
In 
