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ployed; the instruments they used ; their fellowship ; and, in 

 the last place, by the objects to which their attention was 

 chiefly directed. 



The black and common dyers, particularly in Saxony, 

 learned the art of communicating good dyes to linen or 

 linsey-woolsey, and assumed the title of black awd fine dyers, 

 by which they endeavoured to distinguish themselves from 

 the common linen dyers, as they were then called. They 

 were, however, established into one company with the black 

 and fine dyers by an ordinance of the elector of Saxony, dated 

 May 24th 1595, and divided into three principal branches, 

 viz, those of Leipzic, Dresden, and Zwickaw*; and this 

 union chancellor Von Ludewig considers, improperly, as the 

 union of the art dyers with the Hack dyers f. Such is the state 

 of dyeing at present in Germany, and of the establishment of 

 the dyers. 



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XL. A Biographical Sketch of Count Rumford. 



IR BENJAMIN THOMPSON, Count of Rumford, a 

 native of America, was born in the town of Rumford, in the 

 province of Mafssachusets. In the American war he raised a 

 regiment of dragoons, and signalized himself on different oc- 

 casions in the service of the mother country. In February 

 1 784 he received from His Majesty the honour of knighthood ; 

 and in the same year, with his sovereign's permission, en- 

 gaged in the service of his Serene Highness the Elector of 

 Bavaria. 



In that electorate his services were of the most active and 

 useful kind ; for, in addition to the duties of his military pro- 

 fession, he devoted himself to the amelioration of the condi- 

 tion of the vagrant poor : a Herculean labour, of which no 

 one can form an adequate idea without perusing the account 

 since published by the Count, and yet managed with so 

 much address as to conciliate the good wishes of even the 



* Schreber Beschreibung des Waidts, part 5. § 3. 



t Ludewig ut supra. This perhaps may have induced Von Justi, in 

 his PoUceywissemchaft, vol. i. book 5. p. 20. div. 3. § 583. to make the 

 jsame assertion. 



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