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If the colours were divided into a greater number of teints or divisions, which it is conceived is all that can be done in attempting to improve [the system], it would not render it more useful, but rather tend to create confusion between the teints which are now but sufficiently conspicuous; and would be one step toward reducing it to its premative chaos, from which the author has taken so much pains to extricate it.
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