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conſtructed on his plan, juſt the reverſe of what I ought to have done; and what my own judgment had ſuggeſted, and practice juſtified in all my former Engines on the plan of Newcomen. And your Lordſhip will aſſuredly be convinced, that inſtead of making my condenſer twelve times the ſize of the pump, I ſhould have made it, as I now and ever ſhall do in my own Engines, trifling, or nothing at all larger; and by doing this, all impediments ariſing from condenſers muſt ever be prevented.
Your Lordſhip alſo muſt be impreſſed with an idea of the very diſagreeable dilemma, into which even a man of the ſoundeſt judgment may be drawn by theſe blind guides; and of the ruinous conſequences which may enſue to thouſands, if theſe practices ſhould be ſanctioned by the final eſtabliſhment of ſuch a precedent. Here my new and famous Engine, from which ſo much has been expected, will not move. The expence ſhe coſt is enormous—my employers are out of patience their works are detained—their loſs is great: more than they can eſtimate—they call on me to pay the piper, and allow me nothing for what I have done. Thus am I kicked out of their premiſes, with epithets ſimilar to thoſe I ſo
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