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advance of England, you, I doubt not, can imagine the direfUl 

 results that would have happened to that country. 



Gentlemen, in closing this very imperfect address, allow me to 

 say that it was out of my power to do more than to offer sugges- 

 tions which your more mature wisdom may render useful. Any 

 one of the arts, represented by machines and products of industry, 

 would have required more than an hour for its exemplification 

 and eulogy. Therefore, as I walked through your halls and wan- 

 dered amongst your rare show of beautiful and useful products 

 of artistic skill, and contemplated the valuable animals collected 

 in your stalls, could not but fold my arms in despair at any at- 

 tempt to do justice to your magnificent exhibition. But I cannot 

 fail to express my admiration on viewing those wonderful instru- 

 ments * which cut as easily as the scissors would a piece of paper, 

 and without more noise, the thick plates of steamboiler iron, and 

 with a precision as accurate as the finest drawn line on their 

 surface; nor can I omit to mention the "improved ring-spinner," 

 that forms so delicate, even, and true a thread, and gathers upon 

 the spool its charge of fine yarn for the power loom, while the 

 broken threads, which, in ordinary machines for this purpose, 

 incumber the spinning gear and olog the rolls, is by this almost 

 thinking and prudent machine, quickly wound up, torn off, and 

 packed away so as to give no trouble either to the machine or to 

 the fingers of the attentive girl who waits upon and tends this 

 benefactor of her sex. 



I must not forget to mention the new hydrostatic machine of 

 Mr. Huse, which, by a head of cold water, supercedes steam 

 in moving machinery, printing presses, &c., wherever a Croton 

 river or a Cochituate lake lends its surplus waters from its aque- 

 duct — a machine saving all fuel, firemen's and engineer's wages, 

 and dangers from explosions and from fire. 



Nor should I omit to notice that curious and most ingenious 

 method of priming a guu by Dr. Maynard ; a method which en- 



• Dick's press and shears, an instrument that received one of the great medals ftt tbs 

 World's Fair, ia London. 



