Silk Manufacture in the United States

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L. Belcher, printer, 1883 - 162 páginas
 

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Página 27 - It were to be wished, that some expedient might be fallen upon, to direct their thoughts from undertakings of this nature ; so much the rather, because these manufactures, in process of time, may be carried on, in a greater degree, unless an early stop be put to their progress by employing them in naval stores.
Página 8 - A Note of the Shipping, Men and Provisions sent to Virginia by The Treasurer and Company in the Yeare, 1619.
Página 23 - Behold! at last, and in a subject Land, Nectar sufficient for thy large Demand: Delicious Nectar, powerful to improve Our hospitable Mirth and social Love: This for thy jovial Sons. - Nor less the Care Of thy young Province, to oblige the FAIR; Here tend the Silk Worm in the verdant Shade, The frugal Matron and the blooming Maid.
Página 28 - ... home ; to which may be added, in the charter governments, the little dependence they have upon the mother country, and consequently the small restraints, they are under in any matters detrimental to her interests.
Página 36 - ... of skill, a stability not to be shaken. A resolution passed the House of Representatives, in May, directing the Secretary of the Treasury...
Página 17 - The raw silk, which Great Britain and Ireland are able to consume, will employ forty or fifty thousand persons in that country, nor need they be the strongest, or most industrious part of mankind ; it must be fa weak hand indeed that cannot earn bread where silk-worms and white mulberry trees are so plenty.
Página 13 - Where Wormes and Food doe naturally abound, A Gallant Silken Trade must there be found...
Página 13 - ... 1897. $2.00 52 HARTLIB, Samuel. The Reformed Virginian Silk-worm ; or, A Rare and New Discovery of a speedy way and easie means found out by a young lady in England, she having made full proof thereof in May, 1652, for the feeding of silk-worms in the woods on the Mulberry Tree leaves in Virginia. And also to the good hopes that the Indians seeing and finding that there is neither Art, skill or pains in the thing they will readily set upon it.
Página 8 - ... and excellent boardes of forty, fifty and sixtie length, and three foote bredth, when one Firre tree is able to make the maine Mast of the greatest ship in England. He avouched, that there are incredible variety of sweet woods, especially of the Balsamum tree, which distilleth a pretious gum; that there are innumerable White Mulberry trees, which in so warme a climate may cherish and feede millions of silke wormes, and returne...
Página 17 - As we have but one Water Engine for throwing Silk in the Kingdom, if that should be destroyed by Fire, or any other Accident, it would make the Continuance of throwing fine Silk among us very precarious...

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