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whose means of subsistence are drawn from the Plains ; that, in- 

 deed, is no longer a question a hundred applications for every 

 vacant appointment in the mountains attest.— Jfajor Madden %n 

 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, No. xviii. (New Series), 

 p. 420. 



List of Patents granted for Scotland from 22d September to 

 22d December 1848. 



1. To Robert Thomson Pattison, of Glasgow, in Scotland, printer, 

 " an improved preparation or material for fixing paint or pigment 

 colours on cotton, linen, woollen, silk, and other woven fabrics."— 26th 

 September 1848. 



2. To William Southam, of Nuneaton, in the county of Warwick, 

 miller, " improvements in cotton mills, or in machinery for pulverizing 

 corn grain or seeds." — 26th September 1848. 



3. To William Losn, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, " improvements in 

 steam-engines." — 26th September 1848. 



4. To James Petrie, of Rochdale, in the county of Lancaster, en- 

 gineer, " certain improvements in steam-engines." — 26th September 

 1848. 



5. To Thomas Spencer, of Prescot, in the county of Lancaster, 

 earthenware manufacturer, " certain improvements in machinery, or ap- 

 paratus for manufacturing pipes or tubes from clay, or other plastic 

 materials, part or parts of which improvements are applicable to the 

 manufacture of hollow earthenware." — 27th September 1848. 



6. To John Davie Morries Stirling, of Black Grange, N. B., Esq., 

 " improvements in the manufacture of iron and metallic compounds." — 2d 

 October 1848. 



7. To George Royce, of Fletland, in the county of Lincoln, miller, 

 " improvements in machinery or apparatus for depositing, cleansing, and 

 grinding corn and seed ; also in apparatus for dressing the meal or flour 

 made from wheat and other grains." — 2d October 1848. 



8. To William Sagib, of Rochdale, in the county of Lancaster, 

 wool-dealer, " certain improved means and apparatus for effecting the 

 transit or conveyance of goods, passengers, and correspondence, by land 

 or water, and for other such purposes, part or parts of which means and 

 apparatus constitute a new and improved method of generating steam, 



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