| Description | [Part of letter missing]. [He is not sure the electric machine will survive the carriage. He is having a parallactic* stand made for one of Dollond's telescopes. The canal. He has made a cylindric Chinese bellows with a forge and a 'pocket kitchen', 'containing a pan, brandy flask and cup, butter dish, salt, pepper, soy, mustard, and a furnace, it is capable in a few minutes to ?stew a dish of stakes, make a hash or dress a fowl and the whole is only 7 inches long 5 broad and 21/2 thick. It carries above an English pint of spirits, 1/4 lb of butter, the pan is near the size of .......which is the furnace. In short it is worthy ........patent'. He will send a copy of his thesis, now he is an M.D.].* from parallax = apparent displacement of object caused by actual change of point of observation. |