[89:1] Preliminary Dissertation to the Encyclopædia Britannica, 210.
[95:1] A scientific friend observes, that this is the germ of the theory of oxidation.
[98:1] I have been favoured by Mr. Chambers with an old copy of this letter, in which it is titled as a letter to Gilbert Stuart. The original is among the MSS. R.S.E. where there is a note in Baron Hume's handwriting, with a supposition that it was addressed to Dr. Traill.
[101:1] B. i. part iv. sect. 7.
[104:1] B. i. part iv. sect. 7.
[104:2] B. ii. part i. sect. 10.
CHAPTER III.
1739-1741. Æt. 27-29.