A reply to Dr. Trotter's second pamphlet, respecting the means of destroying the fire-damp / by the author of "An address to the proprietors and managers of coal mines."

Date:
1806
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Credit: A reply to Dr. Trotter's second pamphlet, respecting the means of destroying the fire-damp / by the author of "An address to the proprietors and managers of coal mines.". Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    vices which they may render him in the exercife of his proper calling. In averting (page 21), that I have not made a fingle experiment, Dr. Trotter is as correct as when he charges me with dif- loyalty and impiety. The fad is, that a great portion of my life has been employed in making chymical experiments; and that if there be any one branch of chymifiry in which I have had more experience than in 0 another, it is in that of the inflammable gafes. It has not, indeed, fallen to my lot, though the opportunity has been anxioufly fought, to examine the gas which is generated in coal-mines; and, from fome acquaintance with the hiftory of the fcience, I can con- fidently aflirm, that no fuch examination has ever been made by any other chymift. Is it then “ an ignominiou confeflion,” as 3
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