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necenarily employed becomes fo clammy as to impede the ope- 

 ration. This circum fiance has been here brought into view, 

 merely tliat it may not be overlooked by thofe who may think 

 of making a trial, by way of experiment, of fpinning wool, after 

 being roved by the hand, upon cotton jennies. 



GLEANINGS OF BIOGRAPHY. 

 To the Editor of the Bee, 



liljat Son or Daughter of Harmony has not heard of M'lfs 

 Linley ? 



The following account of her death may be depended upon 

 as authentic : 



" FOR ten days before the clofs of her life, though in a ftate 

 of delirium, fhe was almoft continually (inging, not interrupted 

 pieces, but in a feries of inchanting melody, as pcrfeft as ever 

 Ihe fung in her life. 



« A little before her death, (lie went through the whole of the 

 charming fong, " I know that my Redeemer liveth," Then 

 finging a beautiful Italian air, expreflive of happinefs, (he funk 

 on her pillow, and exi)ired immediately. Doftor Harrington, 

 who attended her, faid he nc'er heard her fing better, if fo well, 

 and he was fo much afFedted that he left the room before the 

 conclufion." 



This acco'jnt was communicated to the late learned and 

 worthy John Loveday, Eiq; of Caverdiam, by a friend at Bath, 

 who had occafion to know iu authenticity. A gentleman to 

 whom he read it, obferved, " That the eftedt of Mifs Linley's 

 delirium was indeed extracrdirary, and muft have greatly afFeft- 

 ed all prefent, though ihe htrfclf fuifered little, if we may 

 iudge from our dreams, and that the immediate caufe of this 

 exhibition may be traced in aflbciation and vibration of the 

 nervous fyftem in the brain, which had been previcjfly exerted 

 by rapturous meditation on religious fubieds.'' 



