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23 Sept. 1801 3 Alarm
Wishing to enter upon apply to enter upon
Having had occasion to  the subject. 
with a degree of exactness in   to stating of the
spirit if not of to the letter of mathematics 
I found the complexion of what I had to say 
but ill suited to the task of the generality of 
 readers — to comevery little of the complexion
 of that sort of work which a reader of the
 same would prefect expect to find in a 
paper on a subject appearing by its title to
 come within the department of political politics
 economy — and such as the properties by
 which it seemed  for a pamphlet
 even such as seemed to render it but the
 minor  to the dangers  of the respectable 
 society to which I take the liberty of 
 addressing it by your hand