jo LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. Sept. 21^' 



lation, or rather transformation of that work, in the izthvoL 

 publiflied at Leipfic 1774. 



It cannot be too much regretted, that there exiles 110 where 

 5n Europe an independent literary prefs for the publication of 

 fuch books as are not to be hazarded by a bookfeller, on ac- 

 count of their not being fufficiently popular. 



Two hundred and fifty copies of a book in general indem- 

 nifies the publifliers. 



If 250 fubfcribers could therefore be obtained, of fuch as 

 have handfome fortunes and form libraries, delighting likewife 

 in employing their leifure in the reading books of real erudi- 

 tion, to give five guineas a-piece annually, to fupport a prefs 

 at Edinburgh, which is a cheap mart for the printing of books, 

 the fubfcribers would be indemnified, by receiving the books 

 coming from fuch a prefs, and the adive part of fuch a fociety 

 might be enabled to form a fund for the purchafe of valuable 

 MSS. for their prefs, to the great enrichment and delight of the 

 republic of letters. I beg leave to propofe this noble and 

 liberal undertaking, which, by whomfoever it fhall be put iA 

 execution, will immortalize the founders, and lay a foundation 

 for the future glory of literature. 



ALBANICUS,. 



Hints to Manufadurers on the Spinning of Wool 

 by Machinery. 



Since Mr Arkwright difcovered a mode of fpinning cotton by 

 machinery, feveral attempts have been made to fpin wool in 

 the fame way ; but hitherto, yarn fpun in this way has not 

 given that fatisfadtion in work that could be wi(hed, unlefs foi* 

 a very few purpofes ; the caufes of that failure, it is believed, 

 will be found to be merely accidental, and may be removed by 

 a little attention. 



The vary ingenious contriver of the carding machine adapt- 

 ed it with much accuracy to the purpofe he wifhed to etleft, 

 and to the nature of the materials he was to work upon. 

 Though the principle upon which it is conflrufted may therefore 



