35 WATERING HEMl". 



together with a portion of azot, are returned by the veins, and 

 thrown out as the blood paiFes throu^Ii the lung«. A iVeft) 

 portion of air is at the fame time ablorbed, and the above 

 changes repeated. 



Thefe then are the effefls of refpiration, as far as we are at 

 prelent acquainted with them ; but this important branch of 

 phj'fiology ftill remains in confiderable obfcurit}'. 



Arlington Street, WlLLIAxM BRANDE. 



Jpril 29, 1805. 



IV. 



JvfiruSlion on the Procejjhs dijcovered hi/ M. Bk a lle, of Amiens, 

 /or uattring Hanp in Jzvo H(mrs Time, in all Seafons, ivilhw 

 out injuriijgits 'Quality ^. PubUJhtd by Order of the Mj^nijler 

 of (he Interior of Frqnce. 



^periments ou Jjsj the month of Fruaidor in the year XI. (September 18Q3.) 



of the French ^'^^ government called to Paris M. Bralle, of Amiens, the in- 



^overnmcnt. yentor of new procelTes for watering hemp. This difcovery, 



yvhich is interet^ing to agripuhure, maiiufadiiires, commerce, 



and the marine, had engaged its attention ; orders were given 



to make the experiments requif^te to afcertr:in its value. 



JLvery thing which could elucidate the principles and 

 pra6iice o( M. Bralle'$ procefTos, which could prove and in- 

 fure their fuccefs, was put in praciice. I^umerous and varied 

 trials were made iji the prefence of M. M. Monge and 

 Berthollet, fejiators, and Teilfier, member of the Inftitute. 

 M. Molard, adminiArator of the confervatory of arts and 

 manufa6lures, directed thefe trials, and carefully purfued 

 them for fix months. The fefults vvere equal to the ex- 

 pe6lalions that had been formed. 



From the account rendered to his imperial Majefty, it was 

 judged that the knowledge of i\. mor^ expeditious method of 

 watering hemp, than thofe employed at prefent, which 

 is practicable at all feafons, and is in no refpe6t injurious to 

 Jiealth, by means of which a greater produce can be obtained 

 fjrom an equal quantity of the materialsj and, which muft extend 



f yrcrm Bibliotheque Phyfipo Ecopomique, Brumairc, An. XIII. 



and 



