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of late years from the extensive preparation of paper 
pulp from wood. 
In the course of conversation with the gentlemen of 
whom I have spoken in my account of my voyage on 
Lake Saima mention was made of the manufacture of 
paper pulp frum wood, and when one of them was speak- 
ing of the immense quantity of wood débris and saw- 
dust with which he was encumbered in his opérations I 
jestingly said Why not convert it into wood pulp?’ His 
prompt reply was ‘ Solely because we cannot do everything 
at once.’ 
By Hofrath A. Grippenberg, proprietor of the paper and 
paper pulp manufactory of Kymmene and Ingerois, I was 
informed the first Ingerois manufactory was built in 1873. 
All kinds of paper were manufactured there, but their 
speciality was paper to be used in the making of cigarettes ; 
what pulp they made was for use in the work chiefly, and 
very little for exportation. In making printing paper 
they used 75 per cent. of wood pulp, with 25 per cent. of 
rags. 
‘On the Ist June 1881 the mill was burned to the 
ground, and it was rebuilt for the manufactory of paper 
pulp and pasteboard only. The new mill was completed 
by December. - 16 turbines, with 800 horse-power, supply 
the needed: force. They use only firwood. They have 
forests of their own, but they purchase also a good deal 
of wood from others. 
The wood is cut into equal sized pieces, which are put 
into what are called defibreurs, in which the fibres are. 
torn apart. In connection with it is a round stone kept 
im rapid movement; and a great deal of water being 
employed small pieces of wood are washed along with the 
torn fibres. All goes then to the sorting apparatus, 
through whicl only very fine pulp passes, and the 
remainder is pumped to another stone, by which it is 
further disentegrated, and it is floated down, suspended in 
a great quantity of water. It is then taken up by an 
endless band, and brought to a room with a very high 
