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f. Things, apparently pedals, worked by the feet of the pneumaticians.

g. Seemingly drawers, forming part of the apparatus as eudiometer, &c. &c.

h. The cluster of upright open tubes or cylinders, and by the assassins termed their musical glasses, which I have so often mentioned, and perceived when they were endeavouring to burst my person, by exploding the interior of the cavity of the trunk. I now find an exact likeness in the Cyclopedia, which, being in electricity, is termed a battery.

i. The apparatus mentioned as standing upon the air-loom, which the assassins were ever so watchful and active, by deadening the sympathy, to prevent my holding sight of ; so that I could never ascertain what the bulky upper parts were,