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Article XVIL 



SUNDRY HINTS, 

 Communicated by different Correfpondents. 



Gentlemen, 



IN the year 1740, the Sieur de la Revere, at 

 Paris, obtained a patent for making flannels, 

 velvets, and other fluffs, of the cottony down of 

 the Apocynum, or Dog's-bane. When I was in 

 France about the year 1767, 1 faw fome of this 

 manufactory, and found that it anfwered very well, 

 cfpccially when a little wool was mixed with it 

 before fpinning. 



I alfo found that this cotton had long been 

 highly efteemed there for fluffing eafy chairs, fet- 

 tees, and (tools, and alfo for quilts, which ren- 

 dered them very light and warm, the down being 

 very elaftick. 



The great quantities of this down or cotton 

 which our hedge-rows produce every autumn, 

 might, I think, be applied to fome fuch ufes in 

 this country, as it appears to be of the fame kind 

 as that ufed in France. 



I beg 



