Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c22.3

c22.3

Owing to that natural impulse which I feel of attending closely to such objects as have once been voluntarily taken in hand my mind has frequently recurred to my last report of the Letchemporam Iron Works; thinking that an attention to this branch of science, or rather Indian manufacture, may prove of essential benefit; which has induced me, to avail myself of the first opportunity that offered, of seeing works of the same kind, at other places; whilst I also entertained the hopes, of being thereby enabled to point out a place where works of that nature, of consequence, might be erected, with a full prospect of success, if it should be thought advisable to establish them in this country.