126 ENGLISH STRAW PLAT. [No. 



. t month of June came, I went into the country 



for the i i made my experiments, and 



'(I lu ilemnii-tralinii. \\\\\\ v.- had 



only the ftliinffij lut tin.- N/'?I also, necessary for the 



making of straw, yielding in no respect to that of 



or of Italy. 1 ihink that, upon the whole, 



illy the ad M those countries; 



for L .tbuudanl in this country than in 



r. It iloiii .n in any oth- 



!i is here in a greater variety of sorts ; 



and is no part of 



the world \vir ' he obtained 



c of our f/oir//tf, merely by keeping the land 



.ly. 



rained the straw, I got some of 



it n j.lat. One piece of this plat was equal 



in I- uperior in point of fineness, 



i to the plat of the bonnet of Mi-s WOODHOI 



It s< \v to be necessary to do no- 



ire than to - thr 



i Y OF ARTS had interested it- 



. and a> 1 heard that, through its 



-'n grass- 



i,i:ide in Knirland. I communicated an 



The 



i was made hy me on the 19th of 

 nary la<t, when 1 sent to the Society, specimens 

 of i ;,nd also of the plat. Some time after 



this I attended a committee of the Society on the 

 subject, and i^ave them a verbal account of the way 

 in which I had none to work. 



vJll). The committee had, before ti i some 



of my straw to certain // \ rx of ])lat. in order 



to see what it would produce. These manufacturers, 

 \\ itli tiie exception of one, brought . 

 pl;H at first sight, any one to believe 



that it was nonsense to think of bringing the thing 

 to any decree of perfection ! But, was it pu.^ihle to 

 believ.- this .' \\'as it possible to believe that it 

 could answer to import straw from Italy, to pay a 

 twenty per cent, duty on that straw, and to have it 



