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sending to his learned friend the late Mr. Thomas Thomson of Edinburgh, what he calls a specimen of his attempts at carving," a wooden John Locke, without Human Understanding, valuable only as a faithful copy of an ivory medallion done from the life," says, "if I live, I still hope to be "able to produce a reduced copy of Chantrey's bust of myself, "fit for a chimney-piece;" adding, with a very sincere, but a very unnecessary scruple of his usual modesty,-" as I do not “think myself of importance enough to fill up so much of my "friends' houses as the original bust does."*

* Mr. Watt to Mr. Thomas Thomson, 26th May, 1818.

END OF THE LIFE OF WATT.