Now I almost know as little of the _Chinese_ language, as I do of the mechanism of _Lippius's_ clock-work; so, why these should have jostled themselves into the two first articles of my list ----I leave to the curious as a problem of Nature. 
Now I know as little of the Chinese language as I do of the mechanism of Lippius's clock-work; so why these two should have jostled themselves into my mind, I know not.
