236 Fish Flour.—Patents. 
FISH FLOUR. 
«The Indians in all the Upper Oroonoko fry fish, dry Ae 
in the’sun, and reduce them to powder without separating the 
bones. | have seen masses of fifty or sixty pounds of this flour, 
which resembles that of cassava. When it is wanted for eating, 
it is mixed with water and reduced to a paste. In every climate 
the abundance of fish has led to the invention of the same means 
of preserving them. Pliny and Diodorus Siculus have described 
the fish bread of the Ichthyoph: igous nations, that dwelt on the 
Persian Gulf, and the shores of the Red Sea,’ __ Humboldt. 
LIST OF PATENTS FOR NEW INVENTIONS. 
To William Lane, of Birmingham, jack maker, for certain 
improvements on horizontal roasting jacks, which improvements 
are applicable to other useful purposes.—Dated 23d August 1821. 
—2 months allowed to enrol specification. 
To David Gordon, of Edinburgh, now residing in Stranraer, 
esq., for certain improvements in the construction of harness for 
animals of draught and burthen.—Sth Sept.—6 months. 
To Bevington Gibbins, of Melin Crythen Works, near Neath, 
Glamorganshire,; chemist, “(otte of the peopie called Quakers,) aud 
Charles Hunnings Wilkinson, of Bath, M.D., for an improved 
retort or vessel for making coal and Stier gas; and for distillation, 
evaporation, and concentration of acids and other substances.— 
Sih Sept.—2 months. 
To Dominique Pierre Deurbroucq, of King-street, Soho, gent., 
in consequence of a communication made to him by a certain 
foreigner residing abroad, fer an apparatus for condensing the 
alcoholic steams arising fen spirituous liquors, such as wine, 
brandy, beer, cyder, aa other spirituous liquors, during their fer- 
mentation.—!}th Sept.—6 months. 
To Richard Francis Hawkins, of Plumstead, Kent, master 
mariner, for certain improvements in the construction of anchors, 
—11th Sept.—6 months. 
To William Webster, of George-court, Princes-street, Soho, 
gun-maker, for certain improvements in the mechanism of and 
appertaining to Forsyth’s rollers, wagazine for the discharge of 
fowling-pieces and fire-arms in general by means of percussion. 
—1l4th Sept.—2 months. 
To William Losh, of Newcastle- -lpon- -Tyne, iron- founder, for 
certain improvements in the construction of iron rails for railways. 
— 4th Sept.—2 months. 
To James Gladston, of Liverpool, iron-monger, for his method 
of increasing the strength of timber. —20th Sept.—6 months. 
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