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boiling water, than by being deeped in cold watcn 

 — This refltdlion opens a door for a great variety 

 of new experiments in regard to flax. 1 would 

 therefore recommend to gentlemen cultivators and 

 farmers, to make repeated trials upon this new fyf- 

 tem, which would f )on afcertain, whether it ought 

 to be adopted in pradice or rejedted. One thing, 

 I think, we may be certain of, that if the Egyp- 

 tians watered their flax in our common manner, 

 they undoubtedly watered it in very warm watery 

 from the great heat of their clihnate, which would 

 probably make them negle6b to think of water 

 heated by any other means than that of the fun. 

 A good general pra6lice can only be eftablifhed 

 upon repeated trials. Though one experiment may 

 fail, another with a little variation may fucceed ; 

 and the importance of the objedl defired to be ob- 

 tained will juflify a good degree of perfeverance in 

 the profccution of the means. In this view, as the 

 Chinefe thread .is faid to be very ftrong, it would 

 be woith while to be acquainted with the practice 

 of that diilant nation, in regard to the rearing and 

 manufadluiing of flax, as well as with the methods 

 uljcd by the Flemings and the Dutch. 



Boiling water, perhaps, might at once clear the 

 nev flax fiom many impurities, which, when not re- 

 moved till it be fpun into yarn, are then removed 



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