>j:'.v BRicic macii/ne. 



A\V have seen a model of a Brick Machiiir, consfruc'cd 

 on u new principle, invented b\' Mr. Daniel Fr"?ncb, me- 

 chanist anci engineer, of this city, .'^nil so cortrived as to 

 manufacture bricks of all kinds with the irrcatest faeiliW- 

 ^t will produce 3C00 bricks in an hour, if supplied with 

 clay, and may be extended to produce any number re- 

 quired in the same time. The clay is .ipplied without any 

 previous preparation. It requires only the natural mois- 

 ture, as it is commonly found a few inches below the sur- 

 face of the earth. In this state it is applied to the machino 

 and the bricks are produced in the neatest manner, ready 

 to be piled away ; saving the trouble of carrying;; to and 

 ffom the yard, and of tending- while drying, a$ is done in 

 the common way. More than two thirds of the usual ex- 

 pence is saved in producing the bricks ready to burn. — - 

 The bricks manufactured by the machine are much more 

 compact and impenetrable to water, than brick manufac- 

 tured by hand ; as a brick of the same size will weigh 

 nearly one fifth more than those made in the common way 



Specimens of the brick produced in this way, from se- 

 reral kinds of clay, have been burned, and the result 

 has proved beyond all doubt, that the machine will answer 

 the purpose intended Neu-yoiii livening Post 



From the Richmond Enquirer. 

 James River Canal S^-c. — We inform the people of the 

 Upper Country, that a contract has been made by the 

 James River Company with Captain Ariel Cooley, of 

 Springfield, JNIassachusctts, with a view of eommunicat- 

 jug the basin with tide water — 13 locks, inclusive of the 

 water lock, are to be put up — >^ 50,000 are to be given for 

 the work, of which 10,000 have been already paid, in part 

 of the contract. The whole is to be completed by May, 

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