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Sea Island cotton, and I am prepared to supply a simple and 

 moveable apparatus, to be fixed at pleasure to each cotton and 

 spinning frame, that will enable the manager or spinning- 

 master to spin as fine yarn from Flax on cotton-spinning frames, 

 and as well adapted for combric warp yarn as the best that 

 can be spun, by Messrs. Marshall and Co., of Leeds, or Messrs. 

 Hives and Atkinson, of Leeds, whose yarns I always found 

 superior to any I ever used for fine linen goods. 



TESTIMONIALS. 



Copy of a letter from T. H. Sothern, Esq., M.P. for North 

 Wilts, the original of which was placed before His Excellency 

 the Earl of Clarendon, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, in 1851, 

 with a view to Dickson's hand-breaking and scutching-machines 

 being introduced into the workhouses in Ireland, to employ the 

 inmates. 



SIR, You erected for me in three days, on my farm at Bowden Park, near 

 Chippenham, in the year 1847, a mill for bruising Flax, and another mill for 

 scutching Flax, driven by a steam-engine of 5 -horse power. I have worked 

 these mills constantly since that period, and have found that they do the work 

 very well indeed. 



I am, Sir, your obedient servant, 

 (Signed) T. H, S. SOTHERN. 



J. Hill Dickson, Esq., 

 Palmerston Place, Dublin. 



Copy of a letter from T. Beale Browne, Esq., Andoversford, 

 Gloucestershire, who gave his order on seeing the drawings, and 

 has still at work the first Flax-mills invented by Dickson, and 

 worked in the Royal Agricultural Society's Show Yard, at 

 Northampton, in 1847. 



Hampen, Andoversford, Gloucester, 

 October 15th, 1847. 



DEAR SIR, I am sorry 1 could not give you any information of the mills 

 before, as unfortunately the horse-power of my threshing-machines was broken 

 before the Flax-mill was erected, and this has caused so much delay. You will 

 be pleased to hear that it has far exceeded my expectations, and nothing can 

 exceed the beautiful manner in which the breaking-mill, as well as the 

 scutching-mill works. The man from the north of Ireland, who came to ine 



