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as indeed other itrata do which are not called fullers’ ‘earth, 
particularly one in the affemb blage of ftrata below the ch 
ealled the chalk-marl ; from which a faponaceous whiti ih 
clay is got, and ufed by the sare people for extractin 
greafe, {couring greafy kettles, &c. ‘There are babe 
other ftrata in the Britith feries which poffefs thefe proper- 
ties, in a greater or leffer degree, the modern improve- 
to that which it had when particular 
te pal for prohibiting its exportation, under the fevereit 
penalties 
« Fullers’ earth has been a desagy ac neceilary to 
Sy 
the well drefling of cloth; and oreign hough 
they can procure 1. to a candetinely e ported out 
of the kingdom, can never reach to. the perfection of th 
Englifh c » &c. without Fullers earth, which is very 
uality, uc in quantity and cheapnefs 
reafon it is made aband commodity ; and the export 
made equally criminal with that of exporting wool.” 
This earth is reckoned by fir H. Plat, and others, a great 
a sale 2 land; and confequently proper for being ufed 
a manure where it is found in fufficient quantity for that 
= alieebe. ae is probably the moft adapted to the more 
light forts of la 
FuLier’s Thi fle in Agr icultures. the common name of a 
plant cultivated in the field in fom e diftriéts, for its ufe by 
the manufacturers of fome forts of cloth, as affording a fine 
vegetable hook, &c. See 
FULLERTOL, in Geography, a town : Hindooftan, 
in Rohilctind ; 20 miles f Pillibea 
FULLERTON, Cars, a ioe in Hudfon’ sbay. N. 
lat. 64 10’. W. long. 88° 20’. 
FuLLerton Point, a “cape on the W. coaft of the ifland 
of Antigua. . Jat. 17° 13’. W. long. 61° 3 
FU “RY, a work-houfe, or place where cloths, & 
are fulled or fcoured. The term is principally ander ined 
ef the ea 
: LING, the art or a@ of cleanfing, fcouring, and 
prefling cloths, ftuffs, and ftockings, to render them tronger 
clofer, and firmer 5 called alfo mulling. See ING 
r G. Wheeler, 
on Nicias was a 
governor i 
<< ee of. dota, and other ftuffs, is performed by a 
d of water-mill; thence called a fulling or Jeouring-mill. 
T hefe, mills, excepting in what relates to the mill itones 
and hopper, are much the fame with corn-mills. And there 
are even fome which ferve indifferently for both purpofes ; 
«orn being ground, and cloths fulled, by the motion of the 
fame whee 
Hence in’ fome places, particularly ‘France, the fullers 
_ are galled millers; as grinding corn, and milling ee at 
the fame time. 
FULLING Mill, in the Manufattures, is a wach ne em-~ 
ployed for sw: hing, fcouring, or. fulling of cloth, either 
with a view of cleanfing it, in which cafe it is termed feomr- 
“ing, or for the purpofe of thickening woollen cloth, wortteds, 
&c. when it is termed milling; in either cafe the fulling- 
mill employed is the fame: ifs operation is to conftantly 
agitate and. ne a new furface to the aétion of water or 
ether which the gecds to be.operated upon. 
ace conftaritly toppled 3 this is performed by two ‘beatexs 
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or mallets, which a4 fucceffively raifed by the ation of 
a water-mill, or fle pad ne, and let fall upon the cloth, 
which they trike a ea 4 
carries away the dirt and imp 
from the cloths by the agitation of the mallets, or ftocks, as 
ey are termed. 
n infpe&tion of Plate XXIX. Mechanics, will ie 
H a 
clearer idea of the conftruction of this mac ine. ere 
a 5, and elevation, k ge 6 A fulling-mill generally con- 
tains four, fix, eight, or tcf pair of ftocks, according to the 
quantity of work it is required . Dahil ; thefe 
moved by t e fame water-wheel, eam-engine : 
ap cafe, the axis s of the water-w heel is employed to move 
two o ns e pair, whilft the others receive: nei mction 
m one of two ‘Gmilar and parallel fhafts, turned ath cog- 
wheels gne the fhaft of the water-wheel. A p n of 
this fhaft is reprefented at A in the plate, eal ae Roe 
of the mill; and the cog, which gives it motion, is denoted 
N, jg. 4: it revolves upon aay at its ends, which 
are fupported on braffes ha! on the frame work or mae 
fonry, as fhewn aes or lifters, B, B, D, Dy 
are fitted upon he fhaft ane alternately, as they pafs the 
beaters E and F, lift them up, and they defcend by. their 
own Ny — beaters are formed from a large block 
of wood affixed to a long ftem G, moving on.a 
centre at g, which j is aie: at the top of the frame HIK 
hine ; the principal part of this is a large 
me i e cavity 4a, 
3 this i is termed the trough, 
of the beste tae fo as to be inter cepted by the ines 
B, D, as they revolve; the beaters are alfo curved at 
the eect fide to the fame ee! as the beans K, fo that 
they apply as clofe as poffible to cach other w ithout toush- 
ing ; tus is neceflary to prevent ‘le cloth getting between 
and being cued or cut thereby. 
ag the cloth, ar 
by figs 5s which a like teeth, and a 
ually : bend and di 
more e 
isa pipe bringing wa 
aed witha ftop cock to regulate ae se i. : the pipe pafles 
through the back of the b I, the water ftriking 
againit a board-x, placed pend the sete it falls down 
in a fheet upon the cloth, and keeps it conftantly faturated. 
When the cloth is ta be put, iy the machine, a work: as 
when at t 
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