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tory, where I intend toward winter to make some observations respecting our horizon, and to lay a foundation for those observations by which my invention on the longitude of places may be confirmed. Perhaps I may then travel in all haste first to Upsal, to get some things I need for it."
At this time, having recently returned from France, in one letter to Benzelius he says, "Pardon, my dear brother, that I write to you in French. But the language in which you think usually suits you best. My thoughts at present move in this language; but whenever Cicero shall again engage me, I shall endeavor to address you like a Ciceronian." He was now much in conference with the eminent Swedish engineer Polheimer—soon to be ennobled by Charles XII and given the name Polhem—and he urged the founding of a department of Mechanics in the university, in which both Polheimer and he himself would have appointments. But his labors were bestowed chiefly on his scientific periodical, called Dædalus, in which his own and Polheimer's inventions and discoveries were set forth in detail. On the 26th of June, 1716, he writes to his brother Benzelius—
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