
          A pewter packing bottle is my fluorine 
gas bottle - a stone jug and a tin
tube my earthen retort - a tea kettle
with the cover [?] on is my iron retort
etc. I have a complete pneumatic
cistern with several of my own own improvements.
My [added: glass] retorts etc. are also regular. But
most of my apparatus is sui generis.
I have had in all my classes more
than three hundred pupils. You will
wonder why lectures are so popular. 
I will tell you. I am perfectly acquainted
with this sort of people. "I become all
things to all men." [Benjamin] Silliman, [?]
[?] or [Humphry] Davy would do nothing here.
I turn every thing in science into
common talk. I illustrate the most
abstruse parts by a [disk?] kettle, a warming 
pan, a bread tray, a tea pot, a soup bowl
or a cheese press.

My principal patrons are the
minister, doctors and lawyers. [?]
        