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 A learned Student in Mathematics has long published his ability and desire to construct breeches upon geometrical principles.

Mr. Nunn is certainly ingenious, and his breeches, a few salient angles excepted, admirable; but the artist who should make bridles, saddles, and other equestrian paraphernalia, by the rules of pure mathematics, would render a much more praise-worthy service to the public. For if the flimsy leather breeches require geometrical cutting, how much more necessary must it be to the tough hide which forms the bridle? and to what purpose will the geometry in the breeches operate, if the saddle, by which they are to