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For though, in the ordinary course of business, this part is not,

like the other three, necessarily withdrawn from it, in order to

be placed in the other two branches of the general stock of the

society, it must, however, like all other things, be wasted and

worn out at last, and sometimes, too, be either lost or sent

abroad, and must, therefore, require continual, though no doubt

much smaller supplies.