10 THE CHINESE MAnwner. 
face of the ftove, againft which they prefs it, to force out 
great part of the water through the wires. The heat of 
the wall foon evaporates the reft, and a boy takes off the 
dried fheet by rolling it up.. The fide next the ftove re- 
ceives the even polith of the ftucco, and is thereby better 
fitted to receive the impreflion of fine prints. If a degree 
of fizing is required, a decocticn of rice is mixed with the 
ftuff in the vat. 
Thus the great fheet is obtained, fmooth and fized, and 
a number of the European operations faved. ' 
As the ftove hag two polithed fides, and there are two 
vats, the fame operation is at the fame time performed by 
two other men at the other vat; and one fire ferves. 
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N°. IV. | 
Queries and CONJECTURES relating to Magneti/m, and 
theTheory of the Earth, ina Letter Jrom Dr. B. FRANK- 
LIN, ¢o Mr. Bopoin, 
DEAR SIR, 
Read Jan. RECEIVED your favours by Mefirs. Gore, Hilli- 
jdliick iol ardand Lee, with whofeconverfationI was much 
pleafed, and wifhed for more of it; but their flay with us 
was too fhort. Whenever you recommend any of your 
friends to me, you oblige me. 
I want to know whether your Philofophical Society re- 
ceived the fecond volume of our Tranfaétions. I fent it, 
but never heard of its arriving. If it mifcarried, I will 
fend another. Has your Society among its books the 
French Work fur les Arts © les Metiers? \tis voluminous, | 
well executed, and may be ufeful in our country. I have 
bequeathed it them in my will; but if they have it already, 
I will fubftitute fomething elfe. 
Our 
