BBMP FRO 91 REAV STAI.KS* 



isearljr to otve half of wh»t U carried thither, U either Ief)t 

 th«re to rot, under the name of refuse, or thrown away as 

 of no use, because too rough and short for being spun and 

 converted ipto cloth. Now, from the experiments I have 

 fi^ tried, and caused to be tried, 1 have uniformly found, that, 



though too rough and short for bei:ig converted into cloth, 

 ev«o of the coarsest kind, the refuse of hemp and flax, on 

 bemg beat and shaken, so as to separate the strawy from 

 the stringy particles, which can V>e done in a few minutes 

 hf a mill or hand-labour, as is most convenient, becomes 

 thereby as soft and pliable, and as useful for making- paper, 

 as the longest, and what is reckoned the most valuable part 

 of the plant, after it has been c6nverted into cloth and worn 

 fpr years. 

 Maybe made -^^ i^s natural, state, it is true, the refuse of hemp and flax 

 '•eiy white. is generally of a brown and somewhat dark colour. But 

 what of that? By the application of muriatic acid, oil of 

 vitriol, or other cheap ingredient, well known to the che- 

 mists, as well a<^ to every bleacher, such refuse, without 

 being in the least injured for making paper, can,, in a few- 

 hours, if necessary, be made as white as the finest cambric. 

 Number of There are, at a medium, published in London, every 



i\ewspapers mornins:* 16000 newsparjers, and every evening about 

 poWvshedm s' i . » j a 



London. J40<>0. Of those published every other day there are about 



1,0000. The Sunday's newspapers amount to about 25000 ; 



and there are nearly 20000 other weekly papers, making 



Theseffon- in all the enormous sum of 245000 per week. At a ine- 



sumeSCOtuns ^jypri c^q newspapers are equal to one pound — hence the 



of paper aoitu- ^ , ^ , ^ 



a^y. wpole amount to about 3 tuns per week, or 200 tuns per 



annum. But though this, perhaps, is not one half of the 



paper expended in London on periodical publications, and 



vyhat.may be called fugacious literature ; and not one fourth 



part of what is otherwise consumed in printing-houses irx 



the country at large ; yet there are materials enough in the 



wfose of the hemp and flax raised in Britain and Ireland 



fpr all thib and much more, 



Ho-bines con- ■^"'* ^* ^^'^ '*^^^^ ^"*" ^^ ^^^ ^^"^ ^"^ straw of hops, a circum- 



taia hemp, stance well known to the Society, contains an excellent 



berap for inaking many articles, so also will it prove a moat 



excellent material for naaking all kinds of paper. And it is 



* fact. 



