] M On painting Linen Cloth in Oil Colours. 



colate colour. Canvass painted lead-colour will yield a good 

 dark lead-colour. 



1 am, sir, your obedient humble servant, 



Wm. Anderson. 



Portsca, March 25, 1807. 



To C. Taylor, M.D. See. 



Certificates, dated March, ISO?, were received from the 

 following persons, viz. 



A. Stow, lieutenant and commander of the gun -brig 

 Steady, stating, that in the preceding month of October he 

 had received on board his ship a set of hammock cloths, 

 painted after the method invented by Mr. William Ander- 

 son, which had been constantly in use since the time above 

 mentioned, and appeared fully to answer the end proposed, 

 of rendering the canvass soft and pliable, of preventing its 

 cracking, or the paint peeling off, and which in the old 

 method had been a subject of much complaint. 



John Pridy, lieutenant and commander of the Gladiator, 

 and formerly commander of the Dapper, on which latter 

 ship a set of hammock cloths, painted after Mr. Anderson's 

 method, appeared fully to answer the end proposed. 



P. F. Wyatt, oil- and colour-man, Portsea, stating that 

 lie had seen canvass painted after Mr. Anderson's new me- 

 thod, which, after a trial of sixteen months, remained per- 

 fectly soft and pliable, the paint by no means cracking or 

 peeling oil", and that the gloss was retained, though it had 

 been exposed to all weathers. He further added, that he 

 had seen the paint prepared by him from old painted canvass 

 found unserviceable, and had worked and painted there- 

 with ; that it was, in his judgment, very good, and would 

 answer either on canvass, wood, or iron. 



Ns. Diddems, master shipwright, Portsmouth dock- 

 yard, stating, that Mr. Anderson had proposed to him to 

 obtain, by calcination, from old unserviceable painted can- 

 vass, the paint which had been laid thereon ; that such ex- 

 periment was made, and four hundred weight of dry ser- 

 viceable paint prepared from one ton of such canvass ; that 



he 



