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sible for a person to compile a dazzling series of class experi- 

 ments with grandiloquent explications, without being either 

 a philosophical or a practical chemist. 



The league between science and art, which has, in this 

 country, been the slow growth of necessity, was long ago 

 effected in France, to a considerable extent, by authority of 

 the government. The illustrious minister, Colbert, fraught 

 with the most enlightened viows of state policy, founded a 

 school of science to superintend and assist the dyeing manu- 

 factories of the kingdom. From that school, conducted as it 

 has been by a succession of eminent philosophers, have ema- 

 nated invaluable researches on the most beautiful, but, at the 

 same time, most intricate, of all the chemical arts, — researches 

 to which France owes much of her eminence in this very 

 profitable branch of her national industry. 



The manufactory of Messrs. Monteith and Co. has been long 

 celebrated in the commercial world for the excellence and 

 beauty of its cotton fabrics. The madder-reds rival in bril- 

 liancy and solidity any ever produced at Adrianople ; and the 

 white figures, distributed over the cloth, surpass, in purity, 

 elegance, and precision of outline, the original Bandana de- 

 signs. 



The opulent and enlightened proprietors have been careful 

 to avail themselves of every resource which the latest improve- 

 ments in chemistry and mechanics could supply. In this 

 respect, their factory deserves to be studied as a school of 

 practical science. The permission now granted of describing 

 their discharging-gallery is a proof of their liberality, as well 

 as of the confidence justly entertained, that the capital and 

 skill, now engaged in their establishment, are better securities 

 for the preference which their goods possess in the European 

 market, than the utmost mystery in conducting their processes. 



Hence they have rarely refused to strangers, respectable for 

 their rank or science, permission to visit their manufactory, — 

 a favour which it is impossible to enjoy without being gratified 

 and instructed. 



Their new arrangement of hydrostatic presses was completed 



