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when they faw me by a few eafy motions, 
and with one hand, give their fire the greateft 
aftivity, by the velocity with which 1 made 
my machine draw in, and again forc6 out the 
air. Putting lome pieces of iron into their 
fire, I made them in a few minutes red hot, 
which they undoubtedly could not have done 
in half an hour. This fpecimen of my Ikill 
raifed their aftonifhment to the higheft pitch. 
I may venture to fay that they were almoft 
convulfed and thrown into a delirium. They 
danced and capered around the bellows ; each 
tried them in turns, and they clapped their 
hands the better to teftify their joy. They 
begged me to make them a prefent of tliis 
wonderful machine, and feemed to wait for 
my anfwer with impatience, not imagining, 
as 1 judged, that I would readily give up 
fo valuable a piece of furniture. It would 
afford me great pleafure to hear, at fome- fu- 
ture period, that they make ufe of my bei- 
lows that they have brought them to per- 
feftion ; and, above ^all, that they preferve 
a remembrance of that ftranger who firfl; 
fupplied them with the moft effential in- 
ftrument in metallurgy. 
The inhabitant of Caffraria liv@€ fo fami- 
VoL.IL O llarly 
