By the advice, and persuation of several Gentlemen who are anxious to get an Odometer like mine, I have at length concluded to take a pattent, and establish a manufactory of them.

As you have had one of them in use many years, I’ll thank you for your opinion of them, as to accuracy, Simplicity, and durability; whether it incommodes, or disfigures a carriage. And, whether you believe the plan to be original, or whether you ever saw, or heard of one in Europe or America upon the same plan, previous to the adoption of mine—And be pleased Sir, to accept the highest respect, and veneration of your obedt Servt