Tjgi. on larch wood. ni 



and Matomba melted into tears on quitting Wilmot. They 

 ■would willingly have remained his slaves •, they conjured 

 him to follow th^m to the mountain. He promised to vi- 

 sit them there as soon as the peace Ihould be concluded be- 

 tween the T^ild negroes and the colony. He kept his word, 

 a'iid went thither often, to contemplate the virtues, the love, 

 and the friendllup, of Zimeo, of Matomba, and of EUaroe. 



A HINT TO TRADERS IN WOOD, AND MANUFACTURERS. 



jNqw that machinery has come so much into use in manu- 

 fcictures, it is of some importance to know how to find 

 wood, that is well calculated for these purposes, and at a 

 moderate expence. At present the only wood that can 

 be used for fine machinery, is mahogany ; but the price of 

 that is so high, as in a great measure to preclude the use 

 of it in large works. T4ie ordinary woods of Europe, 

 however, are so apt to (brink, or warp, or become worm- 

 eaten in a Ihort time, that a machine made of mahogany 

 goes so much truer, and by consequence more sweetly, 

 and at a leCs expence for a moving power, that it is, per- 

 haps, upon the whole, cheaper to employ that wood than 

 any of them. 



I have often thought it strange that our carpenters 

 fliould not have thought of employing larch wood for 

 these purposes, as this is in all respects preferable to ma- 

 hogany, >and could be procured at lels than one- fourth of 

 tlie price. Larch timber, when cut into thin slices, is lefs 

 apt to (brink or warp than mahogany. Many of the 

 j<aintings of Raphael Urban were painted upon larch wood, 

 'Ai we now paint upon canvas ; and these have stood three 

 hundred years without occasioning the smallest crack iu 

 the paintings ; a thing that could not have happened with 

 B*aliogany j uor is there the bfaaUest mark of worm holcii 



