MEMO-IRS.OF 



In the animation of Linum Flax we 

 are prefented with the exa6teft-poffible 

 defcription of the machinery, and the art 

 of weaving ; and in that of Goffipiam, 

 Cotton Plant, the late Sir Richard Ark- 

 wright's apparatus at Matlock, with the 

 whole progrefs of it's operations, is brought 

 distinctly before the eye, recalling them to 

 thofe by whom they have been examined, 

 and inftructing in their progrefs thofe who 

 never beheld them. 



So, in the perfonification of Cyperus 

 Papyrus, under the name of Papyra, ano- 

 ther art, that of printing, pafles before us 

 with equal precision. The leaves of this 

 plant were firft ufed in Egypt for paper, 

 and gave the name, which it retains to this 

 day ; fo, leaf, or folium, for the fold of a 

 book. We have here, in fweet verfifica- 

 tion, the whole procefs of that ineftimable 

 invention, which paints thoughts, founds, 

 and numbers, in myilic and imperilhable 



characters ; 



