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J From the National Intelligencer of 11th February 
1819, with some additions and corrections up to 
the 13th October, 1819. 
Whole Number—6. 
MISCELLANY. 
Cincinnati, Jan . 18/A, 1819. 
Messrs. Gales & Seaton —Pope advises au¬ 
thors to keep their works many years—I correct 
mine almost as often as I peruse them; hence 
cannot instantly profit by your acceptance of 
the offer I made of sending my Arctic Memoir 
for publication. My progress in studying na¬ 
ture is voluntary or spontaneous, and not the 
consequence of immediate volition ; so, hurry 
suits not with my studies. My intentions, how¬ 
ever, seldom subside until they are accomplish¬ 
ed, or clearly defeated: hence you may expect 
shortly to obtain the memoir alluded to in my 
last; and, in the mean time, I add in a note be¬ 
low, some of the particulars to be explained in 
my future numbers. ; 
My family require most of my time and ef¬ 
forts; 1 shall not, however, neglect to exert my¬ 
self in developing my new principles, even if 
it should cost a portion of the patrimony I de¬ 
signed for my children. If the world, or some 
particular national government, do not furnish 
the mea?:s to explore as I have asked, I can pro¬ 
ceed but slowly with my investigations; for my 
pecuniary concerns have been so much ne¬ 
glected in consequence of my scientific pur¬ 
suits, that I shall have to lay aside, for a time, 
several new memoirs, now in a progressive 
.State,including one on the source and produc¬ 
tion of animal, latent, and free heat. Wishing, 
my writings to be as free as air, I am unwilling 
to put them to sale: indeed I should prefer 
that my pupils, like the pupils of Doctor Black, 
should themselves develop my discovery.— 
Besides the time expended on my new posi¬ 
tions, 1 have paid out considerable sums for 
printing and postage, particularly for five hun ¬ 
dred circulars, of which, I distributed one to 
each notable foreign government, reigning 
prince, legislature, city, college, and philosoph¬ 
ical society, quite around the earth; also to our 
own president, and governors, legislatures, ci¬ 
ties, colleges, Sc philosophical societies, through¬ 
out the Union; and to each of the individual 
members of cur national legislature, as far as 
the five hundred copies would go. 
I leave much 1 have to say, unsaid, and con¬ 
clude with a quotation h'Pm Nicholson’s Encv- 
premia, under the head * Earth.” “ The at- 
