MANUFACTURE OF PAPER 
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LESSON LXXVIIL 
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MANUFACTURE OF PATER, 
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I will now, as. I promised, give you an account 
of the elegant and useful manufacture of paper. 
This delicate and beautiful substance is made 
from the meanest and most disgusting materials, 
from old rags, which have passed from one poor 
person to: another, and have, perhaps, at length 
dropped in tatters fro/n the child of the beggar, 
These are carefully picked up, or bought from 
servants by Jews, who make it their business to go 
about and collect them. They sell them to the 
rag-merchant, who gives from two-pence to four- 
pence a pound, according to their quality; and he, 
when he has got a sufficient quautity, disposes of 
them to the owner of the paper-mill. He gives 
them first to women to sort and pick, agreeably to 
their different degrees of fineness; they, also, with 
a knife, cut out carefully all the seams, which they 
throw into a basket for other purposes; they then 
put them into the dusting engine, a large circular 
wire sieve, where they receive some degree of 
cleansing. The rags are then conveyed to the 
mili. Here they were formerly beaten to pieces 
with vast hammers, which rose and fell continually 
with a most tremendous noise that was heard ata