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fill without attaining to perfection ; for I have no doubt 
that if the mineralogical travels, even the most esteemed, 
and much more those of the author, be compared with 
these Agenda, there will be found in them many deficien- 
cies, and many observations, either imperfect, or even to- 
tally forgotten : but I have mentioned the reason in the. 
Introduction, besides, several of these ideas did not 
occur till I had finished my travels ; and for that reason I 
laboured with more zeal on these Agenda, in the hope of 
rendering young persons, on their entering this career, 
capable of performing what cost me thirty-six years of 
travelling and study. 
Mo. 58 . 
List of American Patents , 
(Continued from Page 396). 
1803. 
Simeon Rouse, Jan. 1. Improvement in the caboose of a vessel 
for distilling fresh from salt water. 
Gurdon F. Saltonstall, Jan. 4. A saw mill for cleaning cotton. 
Christopher Hoxie, Jan. 7, machine for hulling rice. 
Thomas Moore, Jan. 27, refrigerator for domestic uses. 
J. Moffat, Feb. 1, boiler for accelerating the evaporation of liquids. 
John Moffat, Feb. 1, improvement in stills. 
Benjamin Cooley, Feb. 1, machine for raising water. 
Jedediah Peasly, Feb. 1, manufacturing marie into lime. 
Christopher J. Hiitter, Feb. 11, making brandy out of all kinds 
of grain or fruit. 
Moses Coats, Feb. 14, machine for paring apples. 
Abel Stowel, Feb. 14, improvement in a gauge auger. 
Elisha Bartlett, Oliver Bartlett, Otis Bartlett, and George Bart- 
lett, Feb. 17, a machine for making hot wrought nails. 
William Bell and John S. D. Montmollin, March 7, improvement 
to their patented roller cotton gin. 
John Naylor, March 7, improvement in extracting a spirit from 
starch water. 
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