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nish, a man upon a saddle made for the purpose, and whose face 
was covered with a mask of amianthus ; the captain of the company 
and some others carried large bars of red hot iron, protected by the 
gloves, and others plunged their heads into the flames guarded either 
by the mask or cap. Several physicians who attended the experi- 
ments, observed that some of the experimenters experienced very 
litle alteration of the pulse. The result of these trials “‘ surpassed 
any expectation that could have been conceived of the execution of 
a project of so much apparent danger.” 
Cuar. X.—Application of the safeguards against fire to many of 
the arts. 
_ The author supposes that in several of the arts in which high heat 
isemployed, some of the contrivances which have been described 
may be of use. 
In glass blowing the melting pot is sometimes overturned or 
nearly so, and must be righted. The ovens are exposed to the same 
accident. If the head and hands of the workmen were protected 
by the prescribed covering, the damages alluded to might be repair- 
ed more promptly and effectually and with much less risk than they 
how are. ‘The same remarks apply to a certain extent to pottery. 
In high furnaces, reverberatory furnaces, melting, moulding, &c- 
—The workmen would often be saved from injury in these arts if their 
faces were protected from inflamed cinders, and their lower limbs 
from torrents of inflamed metal. But they have never thougbt of 
rendering their clothes incombustible or of handling red hot metal 
m the act of forging. 
Architecture.—The immense utility of wire gauze in closing pas- 
sages against flame without interrupting the circulation of air, the 
passage of gas, &c. will sooner or later be appreciated by architects. 
To devise a suitable protection against fire is surely no less im- 
portant than to guard against thunder by lightning rods, and no less 
Worthy of architectural skill. 
: Varnish making, paper coloring, magazines of inflammable mate- 
Pals, &c, 
é The progress of the flames, in cases of accident in these fabrics 
I$ often too rapid for external assistance. The metallic gauze and 
other armor if at hand, might be of essential service to life and 
Property, 
