ON

CERTAIN STATEMF TS

REGARDING THE

INVENTION OF THE STEAM ENGINE,

IN

M. ARAGO'S

HISTORICAL ELOGE OF JAMES WATT.

BY HUGO REID.

Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer.
Fiat justitia.

GLASGOW :

ROBERT STUART & CO., INGRAM STREET;

W. TAIT, EDINBURGH ;-SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO., LONDON.

MDCCCXL.
1840

GLASGOW:

W. Lowe & Co., Printers, 7, Queen Street.