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away. Individuals have an opportunity of getting their 

 small orders executed to their mind, and the public are 

 thus properly served. 



To supply the demand that th'is arises for pig iron, 

 smelting houses are daily starting up in parts of the coun- 

 try, where nothing of this kind was ever before thought of. 

 Coal and iron stone, in the internal parts of the country, 

 which were formerly of no value to the proprietors, become 

 the sources of opulence to him, and of wealth to a numerous 

 people, whose industry is thus exerted, where only poverty 

 and indolence must otherwise for ever have prevailed. 

 Roads and canals, for conveying these articles to market, 

 become necefsary ; so that efforts are now making for 

 carrying these into effect, in parts of the country where 

 otherwise nothing of this kind could ever have been 

 dreamt of. 



One iron work has been lately establifhed by Mr 

 Edington, on the banks of the Clyde, on such an extensive 

 scale, as bids fair for rivalling that of the Carron company 

 itself. And another at Muirkirk, in conjunction with 

 the making of coal tar, in an inland part of the country, 

 where, without that valuable discovery, both the coal and 

 the iron stone, which there abound, must have remained 

 for ages of no use to the proprietor or the public. 



A NEW AND IMPORTANT DISCOVER V. 



The Editor was lately fhown two samples of flax, one 

 parcel of each of them was in the state it had been left 

 by the drefser j another parcel of each was of the same 

 quality, but white and well bleached. He was afsu- 

 red that these were parts of the same flax and hemp 

 with the unbleached parcels, and that the operation of 

 whitening had been completely effected in tlie space of 



