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CONTENTS. 



C. H. Frewen, Esq., the owner of Innishannan — cause of his not 

 carrying out his proposal to aid the author in erecting mills on 

 his property in the village 242 — 246 



The " Cork Reporter " again comes out on Flax in India, knowing 

 the want of material for the trade in Ireland, and that want of 

 cotton in England, is Ireland's opportunity for Flax . . 244 — 246 



The author's observations and writings in 1845, on the certainty of 

 Flax taking the place of cotton in Manchester, made still more 

 confident in 1847 by the visit of a relative from Charleston, 

 Dr. Corbett, nephew of Dr. S. H. Dickson .... 246—247 



The author's observations on the opportunity his Excellency Lord 

 Wodehouse, now has of making Ireland the right arm of Lan- 

 cashire, and doing away with the slave-grown cotton of America 248 — 249 



PAET IV. 



Early history of the spinning and weaving of Flax into linen cloth 

 up to the reign of William III. when Ireland was left in 

 possession of the linen trade, — progress and falling of or 

 decline in the amount of production which commenced from 

 1815 at the conclusion of the war 250 — 259 



Messrs. James Kay and Sons, of Manchester, the first to revive it by 

 the introduction of wet spun yarns by their patented inventions, 

 when others from Yorkshire followed by giving long credit to 

 manufacturers of linen cloth 260 



Messrs. T. and A. Mulholland may be justly called the fathers of 

 the trade, inasmuch as they were the first to build an extensive 

 factory for spinning Flax (or what is justly termed Kaye's 

 patent) in Belfast in 1828, in most extensive premises, aided 

 and extended by their partners, Hind, Herdman, and Co. . 261 — 263 



Textile fabrics of the ancients, taken from the London "Daily 



News," worthy of space and perusal 264 — 269 



Letter taken from the " Morning Chronicle" on cotton and Flax, 

 with notes on ccttonizing Flax by the author's machine, now 

 that cotton is from Is. 6d. to 2s. 6d. per lb. in 1864 . . . 270 — 272 



The author's experiments on New Zealand Flax (Phormium Tenax) 

 for the Society of Arts explained, and an extract from Mr. C. 

 Hawthorn's " New Zealand," on the climate and scenery of 

 the colony— the Maori or native islander noticed . . . 273 — 277 



Comments -^by the author) on the sketch of the "History of Flax- 

 spinning in Leeds," read by a Leeds Flax-spinner before the 

 British Association in 1858 278 290 



The author, seeing Dundee was by the Leeds Flax-spinner un- 

 noticed, gives the statistics of Dundee, and proves that the 

 prosperity arises from Flax-spinning and weaving, and exports 

 of yarns and cloth 291 — 294 



