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Boston Mar 25 [illegible]

Prof Bessey

Dear Sir

In accordance wilth
your desire I sought and and found
the inventor of that piece of [illegible]
name is [illegible] Clarke, and
Highland-[illegible] is his address
In answer to his invitation I [illegible]
his resid[illegible] Tues. evening
to see the machina and [illegible] it.
He spent the whole evening showing it in
different ways. He has improved it since
I saw it before. But has not yet
put it upon the market though he
thinks he will soon.

It shows either picture or natural
object: by reflected light: gives splendid
[illegible] and shows the [illegible] color of the
object or picture correct to a limit
I had him show the leaves a stem of a