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with pounded charcoal. Were I to fit up these boilers 

 again, I should leave this space void, or filled merely 

 with air, forming several small openings below, through 

 which the flame and hot vapour from the flues might 

 ascend and surround the boiler. In the large boiler 

 fitted up in the Linen-hall as a model for bleachers, this 

 alteration is also necessary to render it complete ; and 

 as it might be made in a few hours, and almost without 

 any expense, I cannot help expressing a wish that it 

 might still be done. 



The ardent zeal for the prosperity of his country, and 

 indefatigable attention to every thing that tends to pro- 

 mote useful improvement, which so eminently distinguish 

 that enlightened patriot and most respectable statesman, 

 to whom the manufactures and commerce of Ireland, 

 and the linen trade in particular, are so much indebted, 

 encourage me to hope that he will take pleasure in giv- 

 ing his assistance to render the models for improving 

 fire-places and saving fuel, which I have had the satis- 

 faction of leaving in Ireland, as free from faults as they 

 can possibly be made. 



Though my stay in Ireland was too short to construct 

 models of all the improvements I wished to have intro- 

 duced in that delightful and most interesting island, yet 

 the liberality with which my various proposals were re- 

 ceived, and the generous assistance I met with from all 

 quarters, enabled me to do more in two months than I 

 probably should have been able to have effected in as 

 many years in some other older countries, where the 

 progress of wealth and of refinements has rendered it 

 extremely difficult to get people to attend to useful im- 

 provements. 



I wished much to have been able to have fitted up 



