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** trial, it forms an equally elegant, and much more du- 

 " rable carpeting than wool. — The committee feel a 

 ** degree of pride in having to state, that this invention 

 ** which converts a hitherto useless refuse into a useful 

 ** and highly important branch of manufacture, has ori- 

 " ginated in our own state ; and we feel a degree of 

 ** confidence, that a discovery of so much real practi- 

 " cal importance, will meet with the patronage of the 

 " public generally, but particularly of the legislature." 

 (Signed.) James Low, 



Horatio Gates Spafford, 

 E. C. Genet. 



Thomas Jefferson, late President of the United 

 States, to whom also a specimen was forwarded, has 

 been pleased to communicate his opinion of its merits, 

 in a letter to us, in the following — 



Monticello^ February 10, 1814. 



'* Messrs. Shotwell and Kinder^ 



*' Your favour of December 24th, came but by our 

 *' last mail, and with it the piece of cloth, made of wool 

 " and hair, which you were so kind as to send me, I 

 ** pray you to accept my thanks for this present, which, 

 ** while it is an acceptable mark of good will, shows 

 '* also how important a resource we have in an article 

 ** hitherto mostly thrown away, towards supplying our 

 ** stock of wool, not yet quite equal to our wants. 

 *' Although our flocks of sheep are multiplying rapidly 

 *' in this state, they are still so far short of what are 

 '' necessary for clothing our labourers, that we are 



