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quantity of fix or feven fhirts is to be put into each end oi 

 the machine at a time, left the prefTers being prevented from 

 opening, thehnen will be unable to turn, and of confequence 

 be only partially wafhed. Then faften down the doors of 

 the machine, and fet it to work ; at the end of ten minutes 

 take out the linen, and fupply a frefh quantity : the linen 

 taken out is then carefully to be overlooked, and any little 

 rerriaining ftains walhed out by hand. After two or three 

 fets of linen, according to the foulnefs of it, have been wafhed 

 in the fame waiei , let out fome of the foul water, in propor- 

 tion to its foulnefs, and fupply an equal quantity of that above 

 defciibed from the furnace. Having thus wafhed all your 

 linen through the firft water, repeat the operation with a frefh 

 fupply from the furnace, till the whole is finifhed, then wipe 

 out the machine dry, and leave the doors quite open. 



It has been found by experience, that the foaking the linen 

 over night in cold water and foaper's lye, and foaping it alfo 

 before it is put into the boiling water in the machine, will 

 effetlually prevent the dirt from being fixed in the linen. 



' The advantages of the machine are obvious. The faving 

 of foap, from the more copious ufe of foaper's lye, which 

 cannot be ufed in the common way, on account of the 

 waiher's hands; nor for the fame reafon can fo hot water be 

 ufed as in the machine. The faving alfo of fuel, at leaft one 

 third; of labour, two thirds ; lefs injury alfo to the linen than 

 in the common way ; and, above all, the haftening one of the 



moft trouble fome parts of family ceconomy.- A flout lad 



or man may perform the more laborious part of the procefs. 



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