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CHAPTER V
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[9] Philosophical Transactions, 1808, pp.

124-132.
[10] Winsor's family evidently believed in his great powers; for I am informed by Francis Galton, Esq., F.R.S., that there is a fantastical monument on the right-hand side of the central avenue of the Kensal Green Cemetery, about half way between the lodge and the church, which bears the following inscription:--"Tomb of Frederick Albert Winsor, son of the late Frederick Albert Winsor, originator of public Gas-lighting, buried in the Cemetery of Pere la Chaise, Paris.

At evening time it shall be light."-- Zachariah xiv.7.

"I am come a light into the world, that whoever believeth in Me shall not abide in darkness."-- John xii.
46.
[11] Mr.Parkes, in his well known Chemical Essays (ed.

1841, p.


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