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to use to be a false idea of
theirs, the more so, when
upon a Stricter Enquiry
I found they neither sailed
nor rowed but receiving
the whole of their motion —
from the Current itself, and
an Oar at the Head, & at the
Stern to guide them.

I reasoned with myself
as I had been accustomed
in order to find the reason
of other People & of Authors
on the Subject — any Body,
floating in a running water,
when first set off receives
an Impulse from the Water
till having acquired the
same Velocity with the Current
itself, is no more struck
by it, but becomes as it
were, a Part of the Sea
and like the Quantity of circles
which

Identifier: | JB/539/436/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 539.
Date_1	1783-10-15	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	539	Main Headings
Folio number	436	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Samuel Bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
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