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you may calculate withour diffidence on all the aspects
which I can give you_ Your letter I /strikethrough gave/ ^handed^ to the trustees
gave me liberty to inform you that you might be [illegible]
of the appointment should you think proper to accept [of?]
Gen. Davie of Hallifax; a leading member of the board
promised to write to you_ We expect from London a
small apparatus which will probably arrive before [Ohio?]
Our education at Princeton was shamefully & [increasingly?]
defficient in experimental Philosophy a circumastance
which I have often reflected upon with concern_ If
you have never attended particularly to that subject [word missing]
your commencement, you would undoubtedly find it of
great advantage to see the apparatus in Philadelphia
& to learn the manner of using different kinds of electri=
cal machines_ Air-pump_ Telescope_ microscope_ Camera ob=
scura_ Magic Lantern_ Quadrants, Sextants_ & whatever
else you may suppose useful or entertaining_ I [should?]
have appeared often very rediculous in my own eyes
had I not gotten a smattering of experimental Philosophy
by visiting Williamsburgh College in Virginia