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I say not a word more at present — and indeed it is scarce fair or even politic on my own part to insinuate
a second Request before I am sure that the first will be granted.— — — —
In hopes that a few Articles relative to the Literary News of Geneva may entertain you for a moment I
send you them in the stead of better. — You must know that in our University here we are either Jurisprudential
or Theological, there being no Medical Establishment — Metaphysics however and Natural History are the
principal Studies of the Savants — M. Bonnet is a Gent. with whose name & Works I suppose you are not
unacquainted, he is here in high estimation for his abilities & learning in both those Sciences — M. Trimblet is known
for his discoveries on the Polypus. M/ Mallet has distinguished himself by his History of Denmark with a
curious Introduction on Northern Antiquities. M. De Saussurre is on the point of publishing a Treaties
on the Formation of Mountains, with observations particularly relative to the Alps from which much
more is expected than from De Luc's. M<hirend="superscript">r</hi> Bertrand, friend of the famous Maupertuis at Berlin, has lately
printed two Elementary Courses of Geometry & Algebra in a new Plan — Here is a Society of Arts also in a flourishing
state, it is in being only three years, has already founded two public Schools one for Drawing another for Experimental
Mechanics, and is actually engaged in establishing a third School of Equal Utility for Artists - people
begin to see here that a young Manufacturer or Tradesman may employ his time to a much purpose than by
cudgelling his brains with the Grammatical Rudiments of Latin & Greek. —
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