. . The TRAVELS of *A. de la M O T R A T H a P. V. (Remarks on an Engine for raifmg Water hy Tire ; onthe London-S/tftf?; en the Roads from London toFrance; on that Kingdom ; on the Ceremonies ofLewis the Fifteenths Marriage \ and on my Returnto England. F T E R flaying full twelve Months at the Hague,I went to London on fome Bufinefs, where I alwaysmet with new Improvements made j either in Lite-rature, Mathematicks, or Mechanicks, which railedmy Admiration; the Englijb Genius and Ambi-tion conftantly aggrandizing, embellifhing,

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. . The TRAVELS of *A. de la M O T R A T H a P. V. (Remarks on an Engine for raifmg Water hy Tire ; onthe London-S/tftf?; en the Roads from London toFrance; on that Kingdom ; on the Ceremonies ofLewis the Fifteenths Marriage \ and on my Returnto England. F T E R flaying full twelve Months at the Hague,I went to London on fome Bufinefs, where I alwaysmet with new Improvements made j either in Lite-rature, Mathematicks, or Mechanicks, which railedmy Admiration; the Englijb Genius and Ambi-tion conftantly aggrandizing, embellifhing, and ren-dering that City flourifhing, has brought all Artsand Sciences to a higher Degree of Perfection, than any other Nationwhatfoever ; and feeing, that there were not a fufficient Number of Hy-draulick Machines on the Banks of the River Thames, to fupply thislarge City, which is the richeft, and moft populous of all Europe, withWater, invented that which is reprefented in my fourth Print, to makeone Element fubfervient to the Inhabitants by another, which

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