58 on delays in the court of Sefsion. Sept. 11. 
' for the durability of a pelice or fhube is a great ob- 
ject to the peasant, and indeed in a lefs degree to all 
clafses. whilst one half of the fheep skins manufac- 
tured in the north, are partly rotten when brought 
to market, being burnt up, I believe, by a quantity of 
calcareous earth (probably ina caustic state,) with 
which every pore ‘is filled. In fhort, it appears to 
me that a much better mode of drefsing, at least the 
common {theep skin furs, might be fallen upon, than 
what is at present practised in Rufsia; and that 
would give such a superiority to the new manufac- 
tory, as must be attended with a great sale; for I 
regard such an improvement, as areal desideratum 
in that branch of trade. 
ON THE DELAYS INCIDENT TO THE COURT 
OF SEssIon. 
To the Lord President of the Court of Sefsian. 
LETTER I1.* 
My Lorp, 
I; the interlocutors were reduced to two, upon each 
point, and all dispute upon counter-claims was pre- 
cluded, one might think it only remained to decide at 
once upon the justice of the pleas of the parties, and 
so terminate the dispute. But the case is quite o- 
therwise ; and there are many more bars in the way 
of a speedy decision. 
* Continued from vol. xvi. p- 280 
