For a number of years with much difficulty and expense I have employed myself in discovering dyes, &c. suitable to the manufacture of various articles in the United States, and finding them of advantage to many throughout our country, and having been requested by persons interested to make them public, by publishing a work containing from one to two hundred pages, as my circumstances may permit, I have in the event concluded to dedicate it to you in the following manner:—

This

Original Work

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Is most respectfully2 dedicated

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by the Author

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To the Hon. Thomas Jefferson, Esqr

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For the many attentions bestowed by him

on his fellow citizens

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In promoting the sciences

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and

For the general welfare

of his Country.

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Dr sir, your patronage and assent would be gratefully received—