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part of which, when finished by the patent liquid, were 

 taken by manufaturers in Amiens and Lyons, and spun and 

 woven into velvets and plush with such success, that several 

 applications have been made for licences to work or use the 

 patents. The patentee, having terms proposed to him by 

 the London agent of an Amiens and Lyons firm for a license 

 for the kingdoms of France and Belgium, begs to inform 

 spinners and manufacturers, that having refused to supply the 

 Amiens and Lyons parties with the machinery and license to use 

 the patents^ he is now prepared to supply the public with 

 machines, at prices varying from 50 to 250 each, to be 

 worked by either manual, water, or steam power, and to 

 grant the right and give instructions as to the use of the 

 said patents, in India, France, Belgium, Holland, Austria, 

 Italy, Prussia, Russia, Spain, Great Britain and Ireland, the 

 United States of America, and Canada. The patent breaking 

 and also the patent scutching machine can be turned by 

 two men, and with three boys or girls attending the feeding, 

 the produce will be from 1J to 2 cwt. of Flax, hemp, 

 rheea, or any other fibre, thoroughly scutched and combed 

 daily. Mr. Gardiner, of the firm of Messrs. Gardiner and 

 Mackintosh, Engineers, Railway Works, New Cross, London, 

 witnessed 14 Ibs. of Bombay hemp being scutched and combed 

 in half-an-hour, and only one pound loss in preparing, in 

 June 1863, at Nye's Wharf, Old Kent Road, Fibre Works. 

 This was done by steam power. 



From among many experiments made by the various manu- 

 facturers in spinning yarns from fibres prepared by J. Hill 

 Dickson on his patented system, from wild rheea, wild hemp, 

 Bombay and Madras hemp, Neilgherry nettle, pine-apple, 

 plantain and aloe fibres, Russian hemp, and Polish rhyne, 

 and Italian hemp, New Zealand, Irish, and Yorkshire Flax, 

 the following are selected : 



Yarns from No. 30 lea to 80 spun by Messrs Hives and 



