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to me as cost to your Family by my indiscretion.

The King the office of Admiralty or the merchants of London are the proper people to whom such a discovery as your Letter points at should be adressed as if I mistake not it tends more to the immediate benifit of Seamen & property entrusted to the Sea than to the enlargement of Science by the discovery of any new property in matter

if Sir after the secret is divulgd I can be of any service to you in carrying your machine into execution you may rely on my fullest assistance I owe that to the request of my old & esteemed Freind Mr Sadleir & to the character which you sir maintain

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