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bourhood of LatJk, as to the eaft ward, in which direction the moan" 

 tains are higher, and covered constantly with a larger quantity of faow. 



July 20th. — At a little di fiance from us, and clofe to the river, two 

 people are engaged in preparations for making paper. They have two 

 large bags of old paper, that has been written upon, and manufactured 

 from the bark of the root of the Latbarisa, formerly mentioned. A 

 few large flat Hones are placed near the edge of the water, where a por- 

 tion of the ftream has been divided from the main current by a low- 

 piece of fods. On the grafs are two frames of wood, covered on one 

 fide with fine cloth, and the other is open 1 forming a (hallow tra.y„ 

 The workmen begin by dipping fome of the old paper in the water, 1 

 -then beating it upon a flat ftone with a fmall round one, till it is reduc- 

 ed to a pulp. One of the trays is then placed in the broad part of the 

 canal, leaving a fpace for the water to run under it. The pulp is put 

 into a geer pump with water, and worked into a parte ; it is then poured 

 on the cloth, and as this is funk two or three inches in the ftream, the 

 water rifes through the cloth into the tray, and, mixing with the pulp, 

 dilutes it. The impurities, which fwim, are picked out, and the pulp 

 agitated by the hand until it is fuppofed to be fufHciently clear, when 

 the current of water is lefTened. The workman fees if the cloth be 

 equally covered with pulp; and if any part look thin, he ftirs the water 

 with his finger immediately over another, that is too thickly covered, 

 and raifes a cloud of pafte which his finger leads to the thin fpot, and 

 by making a little eddy, the motion of which he gradually diminiihes, 

 the pulp is made to fublide. By a repetition of this iimple procefs, the 

 fheet becomes of an equal thicknefs throughout : when it is carefully 

 raifed out of the water and placed horizontally on the ground to dry, 

 till the greater part of the moifture is drained off, when it is gradually 

 Failed, and when nearly dry, the frame is fet upright: when perfectly 



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