962 
Isaac Sanford, of the city of 
Gloucester, sivil-engineer ; and Ste. 
phen Price, of the Strand, in the 
county of Gloucester, civil engineer ; 
for a method to raise a nap or pile 
‘on woollen, cotton, and all other 
cloth, which may require a nap or 
pile, as a substitute for teasels or 
cards. Dated October 30, 1806. 
Robert Bowman, of Leith, manu. 
facturer; for a method of making 
hats, caps, and bonnets, for men 
and women, of whalebone ; harps, 
for harping or cleaning corn or 
grain, and also the bottoms of 
sieves and riddles, and girths for 
horses ; and also cloth for webbing, 
fit for making into hats, caps, &c. 
aud for the backs and seats of chairs, 
sofas, gigs, and other similar carri- 
ages and things; and for the bottoms 
of beds; as also reeds for weavers, 
&c. Dated October 30, 1806. 
Remarks on sundry important Uses 
of the Potatoe. Abridged from 
Letters and Papers of the Bath 
and West of England Society. 
The potatoe has, though descry- 
edly, oecupied so much of the atten- 
tion of different writers, that it may 
seem almost necessary, to, bring for- 
ward some new and important dis- 
coveries concerning it, if we attempt 
to say more on its qualitics. It is 
not, however, a singular opinion, 
that so important is this vegetable, 
and so applicable to economical 
uses, as human food, that it will 
remain for posterity fully to appre- 
ciate its positive and comparative 
value, But as no new and promising 
experiment, hawever imperfectly 
conducted, shouldbe suffered to 
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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1806. 
escape general notice, it will be 
acceptable to our readers to receive 
a general statement of certain trials 
made by a very respectable British 
merchant, with a view to ascertain 
the value of the potatoe for sea 
provision and other stores. His 
ditfidence about having done justice 
to the subject, which he doubts of 
finding leisure to prosecute, prevents 
his allowing his name to appear as 
to a finished essay of his own; but 
certain statements are deemed too 
important to be lost, as they may 
lead to farther discoveries and facts. 
The statements, then, are in sub- 
stance as follow. 
The ease with which this root is 
prepared by boiling and for imme- 
diate consumption, either in its se- 
parate farm, or mixed in bread ; the 
litle trouble there is in preserving 
it through the winter months; and 
the short period between the time of 
planting and the return of the crop ; 
have most probably been the causes 
why less pains have been taken to 
find out cheap methods of preserving 
potatoes, as a store for future suste- 
nance, than would otherwise have 
been the case. 
The large quantity of potatoes 
produced in the last season, and the 
reputed scarcity of bread-corn, in- 
duced me afew wecks since to make 
some small experiments on the means 
of drying potatoes, either in sub- 
stance or in flour; eitherfor future 
consumption at home, or for the 
supply of our seamen on long 
voyages, 
The ease with which I found this 
might be done, and the probable 
benefit which I think may be derived 
to the public from a farther pursuit of 
the subject, induces me to submit to. 
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