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IT may appear something strange, that notwithstanding the numerous volumes hitherto published upon the different Arts, Sciences, and Manufactures, no practical account of have as yet reached the eye of the Public. What this may be owing to, seem rather difficult to account for: it may be, that those few possessed of the secret, from a parsimonious, contracted, or selfish disposition, consider themselves