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 leaſt deſerving of commendation and encouragement; for if no higher benefit were to reſult from it, but the rendering that difficult or impoſſible to many, which is ſtill practicable, and eaſy to a few, it furniſhes a material ſecurity againſt thoſe from whom the greateſt miſchiefs and dangers are to be apprehended.

The firſt claimant to merit in this branch of mechanics is Mr., whoſe Lock is undoubtedly, and beyond all compariſon, more excellent and more ſecure, than any Lock that ever was in uſe before his invention was made known. An obſervation or two upon Mr. Baron’s Lock will however illuſtrate what I have ſaid on the ſubject of fixed wards, and prepare my readers to comprehend more readily, the principle on which my own Lock is conſtructed.

It appears from the object of improvement which employed Mr. Baron’s attention in the conſtruction of his Lock, that he was aware