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With trembling hand I conveyed the instruments out of the room,

but I reflected that I ought not to leave the relics of my work

to excite the horror and suspicion of the peasants; and I

accordingly put them into a basket, with a great quantity of

stones, and laying them up, determined to throw them into the sea

that very night; and in the meantime I sat upon the beach,

employed in cleaning and arranging my chemical apparatus.