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with a high character, says it is far superior to any of the mills there, and its 

 cost is not more than half one of those. I send you a specimen of the Flax of 

 this year's growth, John considers it equal to the best Irish Flax, and says the 

 mill in breaking, wastes less and cleans it better than any mill he has seen. I 

 send you these particulars, knowing it will give you satisfaction. I only wish I 

 had planted twenty acres more Flax this year. 



I am, dear Sir, yours very truly, 

 (Signed) T. BEALE BROWNE. 



Copy of a letter from Dr. J. F. Koyle, of the Honourable the 

 East India Company. 



East India House, Feb. 25th, 1855. 



SIR, I have received the specimens of East India fibres, which yon have 

 been good enough to put through your machines and liquid. The effect is 

 marvellous on many of them, and I feel from what I have seen that your 

 management must bo admirable to convert such ugly looking fibres into silky, 

 hair-like material. The other Flax fibres I have also looked at, and admire 

 them much; there is a great abundance of fibres in India well worthy of the 



attention of merchants. 



Your obedient servant, 



Mr. J. Hill, Dickson, (Signed) J. F. Royle. 



Proprietor, British and Foreign Hemp and Flax Works, 

 Office, 4, Stanley Terrace, Lower Road, Deptford. 



Copy of a letter from Bombay and Liverpool merchants, 

 importers of Indian fibres. 



J. HiU Dickson, Esq., 

 British and Foreign Hemp and Flax Works, 



Office, 4, Stanley Terrace, Lower Road, Deptford. 



Liverpool, April 8th, 1857. 



DEAR SIR, We have pleasure in being able to certify as to the value of 

 your small breaking-machine, which you stated was protected under the old 

 Patent Law in 1852; our Mr. Stevens, of Bombay, spent several hours daily 

 for a week at your factory, to satisfy himself as to the work performed by this 

 breaker and your scutching-machine, and as AVC had some forty bales of Bombay 

 hemp re-dressed which was only worth 14 or 15 per ton, but which after 

 being dressed by you was sold by Mr. J. A. Beneke, hemp and Flax broker, 

 Liverpool, and also in London, at 34 to 35 10s. per ton, we cannot but 

 express our entire satisfaction with the produce and profit of your inventions, 

 and are not surprised to hear, as you state, that the India aloe fibre, worth here 

 10 per ton, should be bringing 28 per ton in London after being re-dressed by 

 your patent machines. 



Yours truly, 



STEVENS, BROTHERS. 



