Glue. 
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ments. It likewise has this singular advantage, that 
while it amuses the mind, gratifies curiosity, and enlarges 
all the intellectual faculties, it in general gives a good deal 
of exercise to the body. 
I am, Sir, your’s, &c. 
JAMES GRAHAM. 
METHOD OF MANUFACTURING GLUE. 
To the editor of the Tradesman^ or Commercial Magazine. 
Sir, 
I HAVE observed in your seventh number a corres- 
pondent asking for particulars on the manufacture of glue, 
and again in your eighth number, page 114. In your 
thirteenth number, for July last, are also the results of se- 
veral experiments on the clippings and parings of tanned 
leather, and fish bones, by Mr. James Graham, of Ber- 
wick ; but I think the following process of making glue, 
as furnished by Mr. J. Clemiell, of Newcastle, about the 
year 1802, is the most concise and simple of any I have 
read, and corresponds exactly with the practical part of 
that manufacture, of which I have been an eye-witness 
for several years, in the neighbourhood of Acton, on the 
road to Uxbridge. I will therefore make use of Mr, C’s. 
own words. 
The improvement (he observes) of any manufacture 
depends upon its easy access to men of science, and a 
prudential theorist can never be better employed than in 
attempting to reduce to regularity or to system the manu- 
factures that may fall under his attention. In conformity 
to the first principle, I made some notes whilst visiting a 
glue manufactory, a few years ago, in Southwark, and 
those interwoven with the remarks on that subject, of some 
chymists of the first respectability, I take the liberty of' 
sending you ; at the same time I must beg of you, of 
your correspondents, that where they may be corrected 
