70 DESCRIPTION OF A NEW PROCESS OF REFINING. 



catalogue of vulgar errors, which the increafe of human know- 

 ledge daily enlarges. It is to be hoped alfo, that a bold afler- 

 tion hazarded here, that the mutton of Spanifh fine-wooled 

 fheep is coarfe, tough, and little better than carrion, will b« 

 contradicted by the evidence of Mr. Giblet and his cuftomers, 

 to the fatisfa&ion of thofe who have unwarily given credit 

 to it. 



His majefty having been pleafed to permit the fale of fuch 

 fheep as can be fpared from the Spanifh flock to be continued, 

 the rams will be delivered at Windfor, and the ewes at Oat- 

 lands, in the latter end of Auguft. At, however, it has been 

 fuggefted to his majefty that the carcafes of the fheep are evi- 

 dently improved, and that the wool has rather gained than loft 

 in value, fix guineas will be in future the price of a ram, and 

 two that of an ewe. And as his majefty has been gracioufly 

 pleafed to continue to entruft the management of the flock to 

 Sir Jofeph Banks, all letters on the fubject of it, addrefled to 

 him in Soho Square, will be anfwered, and the utmoft endea- 

 vours ufed to confult the convenience of thofe who with to be- 

 come purchafers. 



July, 1802. JOS. BANKS. 



II. 



Defcription of a New Procefs of Refining. By Cit. Darcet, 



Nephew*. 



Caufesofperfec- J[ HOUGH the pradice of an art is alone fufficient to bring 

 tion in the arts. |fc tQ perfeaion ^ [t muft alfo b e admitted, that the greater num- 

 ber of ufes to which its produ&s are applied, as well as the 

 greater number of manufactories wherein its proceflTes are 

 carried on, are the principal caufes of its arriving quickly at 

 that defirable point; in fad, if the manufactured articles be of 

 general utility, if the procelTes be generally followed, a com- 

 petition is produced, and every manufacturer endeavours to 

 be victorious in the conteft in which he is engaged : it is then 

 that individual intereft Amplifies the operations of art and brings 

 them to perfection, it fucceeds in affording at a lower price 

 produces of a fimilar kind, or in many cafes of a fort preferable 



* From the Journal de Phyfique, Vendemaire, An. XI. 



