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Rh opinions of contemporary writers where they are different: and lastly, from the generalizing nature of Chaptal's work, he was obliged to have recourse to other authors for practical details not furnished by him: and to his own notes for some of these, which, to an author writing for the improvement of his subject, might seem superfluous, but which he, considering himself as writing for those who were entirely ignorant of it, could not but deem essential.

He has not, therefore, exactly followed Chaptal's arrangement, and has in many cases used his own language. The important chapters on fermentation, however, are either a liberal translation, or a careful abridgment from his work: and he, therefore, hopes he has avoided any considerable error into which he might have been betrayed, by having but a limited acquaintance with chemistry.

Whatever other errors the work may contain, he trusts that they are not of a nature