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or the outhouses of any description, so as to 

 furnish a constant in door employment through 

 the winter months. Hemp or flax prepared 

 by this invention is found, from experiment, 

 to be greatly superior in strength to any other. 

 The most impartial criterion, namely, that of 

 suspending a weight by a line made from dif- 

 ferent sorts, of the same length, thickness, and 

 weight, has been had recourse to, when the one 

 prepared in this manner has supported more 

 than double the weight of the other. From 

 many conversations I have had with Mr. Lee 

 on the subject of his patent, besides frequent 

 proofs of its efficacy, I feel the strongest con- 

 viction that the value of his invention will be 

 soon appreciated when it is introduced into 

 Canada: with such an impression upon my 

 mind, I am persuaded I shall be aiding to in- 

 crease both the interest and comfort of my fel- 

 low countrymen, by promoting, as far as lies in 

 my power, the general use of so simple and so 

 well contrived an apparatus. To establish, in 

 some degree, the reality of what has been ad- 

 duced, I will insert the following estimate of 

 the expenses and produce of one acre of flax, 

 which I have been repeatedly assured by the 

 patentee is the result of many years practical 

 experience as a grower, and formed upon such 

 a calculation as any fair average crop, pro- 



