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making thofe experiments, and they in re- 

 turn (if performed for fome time under 

 your own eye,) would, I am convinced, 

 have encreafed that reputation in no flight 

 degree. You have however chofen to 

 take, what I may well call the oppofite 

 fide — to Hand forth the defender of Mr. 

 Brown; a circumftance which, I allure 

 yon, is fincerely lamented by many of your 

 friends and well-wifhers, among whom I 

 may, with great truth, reckon myfelf : 

 they were defirous that you fhould ftand 

 on your own merits, leaving yourfelf free 

 to avoid whatever, on more mature reflec- 

 tion, might appear defective in any fyftem. 



I fhall now proceed to anfwer the dif- 

 ferent parts of your Letter; and muft begin 

 by thanking you for your civility in fpeak- 

 ing fo favourably of my book. I am much 

 pleafed to find that you agree with me in 

 the general principles of the art ; that is a 



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