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Exactly atthe point where another man would have the task in' dos 'r, the mind of Watt became thoroughly roused. Everythin?. Says Professor Robison, was to him the of a new on serious study; and we knew he would not it he had either discovered its insi i?eanoe, or had made something out of it. Thus k happened wi the phenomenon pro sented'hy the model of the steam-engine. Es endeavored to ascertain from books by what means he was to remedy the defects; and when books failed to aid him, he commenceda connect experiments, and resolved to work out the robelm himself. In the course of his in guirico he some n n a which more than an other lodhia mind into the train of ought which at last 00nd him to the inven tion of which the result were destined to prove. So stupendous. Thisfactwasthe sxistenceoflatent heats But batons we go onto state his proceedings, it is necemryto describe the condition at which the steam-engine had arrived when his investigations com.
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