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I trust Mrs. Howe knows me better than to suppose that my long silence on the great loss that the public has sustained as well as Her Family by the unexpected Death of Her Excellent Brother, has been occasioned by any other motive than the desire not to intrude while She was so fully employed in Acts of attentive kindness to Her Relations who must have found much Comfort from such Attention I trust the Example He has set to the Navy will long continue to stimulate not only the matchless Bravery of the Officers but convince them of the necessity to view the profession in a scientific light by which alone those improvements ^ addition can be continued /addition which will retain that superiority over other Nations which