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337&#93; PAP 14. Peallms, atErfurt, lately been converted into an useful wrapping- paper, paste-boards, playing-cards, bic. without t'le addition of rags : — we conceive, it would atford a good material for paper-iiangings. 15. Grass- wrack (Zostera ma- rina, L. vol. ii. p 30S) is with great advan:age employed in North-Hol- land, wiiere most of the packing- paper is manufaftured of this ma- rine vegetabJe. 1(5. The tendrils of the l^ifie, after having undergone the putre- £34*^1 vt; fermentation, yield a beau- tiful paper. 17. 'I'he Common Horn-lmm Tree (CarpinusBetulus, L.vol. ii. p. 479)' 1h<^ shavings merely wash- ed, and submitted to the mill, were made into a tolerably white paper. 18. The stalks of the Mv'^^zfo;-/ CArteniisia Ahdnthbim, L. vol. ii. p. 239), when soaked for several days in lime-water, and reduced to a pulp, were formed into a v.'hitish writing-pai;er ; but that produced from the external rind was fit for a the purposes of packing. 19. The stalks of the Clematis. — See Traveller's Jov. 20. Bnrleij-straiv is, perhaps, the most abundant and prolitable material which might, in this re- spe6t, serve as a substitute. Dr. ScHAEi'FER (whose inventions have not always been acknowledged b)' an ungrateful posterity) obtained a yellowish paper of this straw, after soaking it in boiliiig water, then steeping it in lime-water, and add- ing the 20ih part of linen rags. Having thus given an outline of the improvements and discoveries made in this useful branch of the arts, by ingenious men on the Con- tinent, as well as in Britain, we were not a little surprized at the effrontery of those adventurers and . N'O. XI. VOL. HI. PAP [3.;^ ignofcint pretenders, who have late- ly amused the world with their iieia invention ot manufa6turing paper trom straw, and other veg<;table productions. Indeed, we deem it a duty we owe to the public in ge- neral, and the British manufac- turers of this important article in particular, to declare that, in our ^opinion, they are fully entitled to 'avail themselves of the different substances before described} even though a speculative person should screen hh pretended method of making or re-manufa'^-turing paper, under an exclusive privilege. l!L any doubt prevail respetting the legalitji of such application, the Editor of this work solemnly en- gages to prove, by the evidence of a rcspeftable proprietor of paper- mills, in the vicinity of London, that these processes, for which his' Majesty's patent, as well as an a6i 01 the legislature, have recently- been obtained, were well known to him previously to both grants j and that he has attuaily procured specimens of paper manufaftured of raw vegetable materials, in this country, about the middle of De- cember, in the year 1799. Henca it lollows, that the patentee is not entitled to the sole exercise or mo- nopoly of his surreptitious privi- lege 3 and that every paper-maker in the United Kingdom, has a right to make use of the discoveries before stated. In a late volume of the " An- nalcs de Chivrie," we meet with some useful hints relative to the manner of re-manufaduring the paper of old books (or even new ones of a certain description), or any letters, or other pajer already- used for writing or printing ; by M. M. De Yeux, Pelletier, MoL.^ilD, audVEKKAVEN. 2 I. FrcM