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NO. 1. their repeated orders and instructions, and after leading me on for near half a century, to employ my whole time and make long voyages for perfecting the Invention, they can never be permitted now to come and say the Invention itself is good for nothing. Sould any one however continue to propagate such an opinion, I beg leave, in contradiction to it, to offer that of Sir Isaac Newton, and that of Martin Folkes, Dr. Halley, Dr. Smith, Mr. Graham, and eight other persons of great eminence, both publicly given to the House of Commons and to be found in