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Excerpt from Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy, Vol. 2: Considered in It's Present State of Improvement Water ferves to the art and navigation of man, as air ferves to the wings of the feathered fpecies. It is the eafy and fpeedy medium, 'the ready con duct and conveyance, whereby all redundancies are carried Off, and all wants fupplied. It makes map as it were a denizen Of every country on the globe. It {hortens every di ande, and ties the remotell: regions together. It carries and communicates the knowledge, the virtues, the manufactures and arts of each clime to all. It gives fprings to indul'try, energy to invention. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."