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 retuned again to a cold ſtate. Would not, (I aſk Mr. Watt,), his Engine be all brazed together; and rendered immoveable until a melting heat was introduced? Which I think he would find difficult to accompliſh, without fixing it in the place of Shadrach, Meſhach, and Abednego; and where I think the whole would be diſſolved, rather than work, or walk about, as thoſe much more feeble Engines did in that ſituation.

Upon the whole, my Lord, I conclude the writer of this Specification comes very much under the ſimilitude of one, who having privately turned out a bag-fox, and joining in the chaſe, has this advantage over his brother ſportſmen; he well knows even at ſtarting what he is purſuing, while the others muſt both purſue and overtake before they can deſcribe the animal. Or he may be compared to one who ſecretes a ſpring-gun ſo nicely balanced on a ſwivel, that it readily points in all directions, and let the treſpaſſer approach either in front, in rear, or on either ſide, it is ſure to tack about and kill him. I will