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lege, Cambridge, a native of Woodhorougk^ 
near Nottingham. I know not that fo full 
an account of this compHcated machine 
is elfewhere to be feen. All the parts are 
feparately, and minutely defcribed, in the 
technical terms ; and illuftrated by two 
views of the whole, and by a large table, 
delineating with great accuracy, every con-» 
fdtuent part of the machine. 
WILSON, 
The fubjed: of this article, like Tho-^ 
mas WiLLisEL, and Samuel Brewer, is 
another inftance of that unconquerable at- 
tachment to a favourite branch of know- 
ledge, which fometimes engroffes the minds 
of thofe, who, by their lot, have not been 
exempted from labouring in the lower, and 
mechanical offices of life. 
From information which I received, more 
than twenty years ago, concerning John 
Wilson, I learned that he was originally 
an inhabitant of Kendal, in Wejlmoreland ; 
and was employed in the manufafture of 
knit {lockings, for which that town was fo 
famous. That, at one time, he gave weekly 
lelTons 
