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Writing from Loiulon to a friend in Ne"\\"lbuu(llan(l, niidrr date- 

 January 13tli, 1894, ]\Ir. Jones says : — "I am glad you are in- 

 terested witli tlie Corsican iibre" (asbestos). "You are quite- 

 right in regard to its brittleness ; but, all tlie same, it would be 

 made use of if the islanders were not so pig-lieaded aliout tlieir 

 lands. I had a sami)le of it over two feet long. I enclose a 

 sample of Italian 'siltry' (asbestos). This is a lovely fibre, but 

 has the same fault as the Corsican. Tlicrc is nothing to fovch 

 Canadian Glmisotilc" (asbestos), '■•(im^, ax I n-islt tn sliii/i\ Xciv- 

 fovndland (dxo, for genuine, good, all-round ijualities." " 1 will, 

 ^end you, soon, a s])ecinu'n of Africa ii hhir jilin\'' 



