of Halkin Mountain, Flintshire. 411 
ready to do so on their oath if desired), that the several ~certifi- 
cates above mentioned have been given voluntarily and gratui- 
tously, and that the several persons giving them have no concern 
or interest in the quarry; and that up to the end of the last year, 
no Halkin bulrs or millstones have been disposed of in any in- | 
stance except those before mentioned ; namely, 
Mr. Edward Evans, Flint Mill, Flintshire. > (Cheshire. 
Mr. Peers, Horn Mills, Dunham-o’-th’-Hill, near Overton, 
Mr. John Edwards, Ysceifoig, Flintshire. 
John Dumbell, Esq., Mersey Mills, Warrington, Lancashire. 
Mr. Pratt, Saredon Mill, near Walsall, Staffordshire. 
Mr. Stephens, Steam Mill, Hill-street, Harrington, Liverpool. 
Messrs. Pilling and Co., Mirfield Mills, near Dewsbury, York- 
shire. 
Messrs. Hudson and Co., King’s Mills, near Leeds, Yorkshire. 
Mr. Rawsthorn, Aughton Water-Mill, near Ormskirk, Lan- 
cashire. 
Mr. Marr, Knotty Ash Windmill, near Liverpool. 
Richard Robinson, Esq., Phoenix Iron Works, Dublin. 
Richard Sankey, Esq., Banker, Holywell, Flintshire. 
They have therefore offered to the Society all the evidence 
. which it is possible to produce, and trust that when the various 
. 
testimonials (collected from different sources and from persons 
who have had no communication with each other, though all 
agreeing in approbation) shall have been compared, the Society 
will be pleased to honour the Halkin Buhrs with their sanction. 
W. Bisnop & Co. 
The several samples alluded to in the preceding Report are 
placed in the Repository of the Society. 
CERTIFICATES 
from all the persons named in the preceding statement accom- 
panied the communication of Messrs. Bishop and Co.; of which 
the following, as being the most important, are subjoined : 
No, I. 
Liverpool, March 3, 1821. 
I have this day examined the small millstone, of Flint buhrstone, 
measuring 114 inches in diameter, which is about to be sent to 
London for the inspection of the Society of Arts, and hereby 
certify, that it is a fair specimen of the rock in the quarry on 
Halkin Mountain, which I visited last year; a vast quantity of 
stone, of a quality equally excellent with this specimen, may be 
procured from Mr. Bishop’s quarry on Halkin, in Flintshire. 
Tuomas Stuart Trait, M.D, 
3 F'2 No. Il. 
