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The Pennsylvania Gazette from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • Page 1

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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oniylvama Numb. XLIL GAZETTE. Containing the frejheft Advices Foreign andDomeBick, From ThurfHay, to Thurfday, October 1 6. 1719. jlmheDeJire if fome of our Country Suffer i- rsy we tnfert what ive pud in Cham- b'j, relating to HXK a Plant of great Ufc in the Arts and ivIanufiiSories fumilninfr Thread.

Cloth. Cord- Jfitnpf by Natural ills call'd Cannabis bears a VheaxrAnalogy to-Flax Linttm 'both-in refpeft of 1 nitrify inn 1 VThc Plant is annual that is, muft he Town afrefh every pCcsLt! It rifes quick into a tall, llender fort of Shrub, vitvhofcStcm however is hollow, and biir enough to he char- i.e..wn,wf and thus liled in the vompoh-: dor ffGun-Powdcr. Its: Leaves arile by fivcsTor fixes from ihc ome Pedicle, and arc a little jagged yielding a (hong 'Srr Head. Its Flowers grow grape-Le, oppofite to each other, in Manner of a St. Whfrw's Croft conliftinc: of five vellowifh incotri- with a like Number of Petala, purple, without and t-vmte waning meruit, or Sccd, lsimaii and round, nil a Stem 3 having- its Pedicles dillincr from thole of the cn.UDiftly, its Bark is Tiflfue of Fibres, "jom'd together a (oft flatter which cafily rots it.

Zrwp is of two Kinds a Male, commonly call'd Alfr; and Female, 'or Fimhlt. Tis the Male alone that produces arifes both Male and Female; 1 It does hot appear, that the Anticnts were acquainted with the Ufc of HemV. in rcfoeft of the Thread it atfords. Pttrr, 'who fpcaks of the Plant in his Natural Hftory Lib. A a.

l. iz. lavs nor a UTirn nr ir rrtnrrnrttur with CWUing the -Virtue of its Stem, Leaves and Root. In jcjiccr, wnar lomc mcrs 01 tnc neiran Antiquities iaaxkvs! that the ''fitmp ncexTary' for the Ulc of was all.ftored up in fwo-Cxtics. of tht jjhrn Empire, at Ravenvt and VtiMt under the Direction of two Frocu- rators; called Procuratoiti mull be undciitood of riajr.

rcal Dcfircs itt Decorion in '''Milfej isj recommended againlt thevJauhdiccvG. '-Thc Leavci are hdd good ai- jnftVBums, and' the Juice thereof agairrtt Dearhefs. irowder or iuowcri mix wuh any.ordinary L.iquor, is iaia to turn tnoic wno annic tnereot, lrupiu. Thb' nd Management of Hemp, makes a confi-dcrable Article in Agriculture there being divers Operas rron rprtiittrl thriti ii -r- Affjiwr- j7ine lown m. -'W, in a warm, larviy, ncii 0011 and- is jt lelf iufficietttio tlefrrby Weprlson ny Ground.

male bcins'firil ripe. The larks of its (aturity arc its. Leaves turning yellow, -and the Stalks Hie Way of gathering it Ts to rr it up by the Roots after vhicji tlicy bind it up in Handfuls or Huhdles The Male they let Hand eight or ten Iays in 'the Air, that the. Seed may dry and ripen; after which they cut' off the Heads, and beat, or thrafli them to get out the Seed. They alio beat the Female, ro get out a thick fetid Sort of Dull, contaiiuivtjicrcin.

This done, they proceed to watex or rate it, by. laying ir five or fix Days in a Pool, or other ltagnant Water, to ror the Bark. A Stream or running Water, would do thc Bu fmpfi much herrrr. hur rhnr ir infrrv rlif VrMfrr nrxA iivft. v.

it a Qualhv very pernicious to the Health for which, Rea-fon it is fcrbid to rate it in Wateis ufeil for dorncdick Puipofc. 1 VVhen rotted, and. taken out again, they dry it; then Drake or beat; out the dry Bun, or Hex, which is thcr woody Part of the from the Rind or Bark which covers it, by cruflung it in a tooth'd or nick'd Inllrumcnt cali'd a Drake beginning wjth the Root nd When the Bun is iufhciently broke, and hangs by lmall Shivers, they fzuwgle or beat "them out With a Piece of wooa, eugcvi ior rnc rurpoie. tne they lbmctimes break 'with the Fintrers. and llrio oti the Rindi without the Help of the or SzviKrfr The next Thig is to beat the which is done either on a Block; or in a with an Hummer, or with Beetles till it feel fufficiently fofc and pliable.

Ic remains now to be heckled, or pafl'ed thro' divers Tooth-In- liniments, not unlike thcWool-drcflcrs Combs, of difrer-. ent Fincnefs This fcparating the lhorter Tow from the relr is fit to be fpun, wove, for -'Thread, Cloth, Cdrdage, or the like. FLAX, or Livey a Plant, with a (lender hollow Stem, ufually about two Foot high whole Bark confirms of Fibre, or Threads, much like thole of Hemp, which Being rliciV.i and work'd in a due planner, makes that noble Conliiio-, ilirv' 1 Jr. fit Cfath. FLix thrives heft iri a Soil that has Iain fallow.

To bear it mull be well plowed, laid flat and even, and the Seed lown in a warm Sealbn, about the middle of March, of Beginning of Jpril. The bell Sccil is thar -brought from the-Hall, to England -3 which, though deary duce two or three Crops, before it need be rencwcdn Jpax pulll up in the Bloom, proves u.hircr and lhongcr; i i Ji 1 1 1' is loll. The Preparations Ffox mult undergo, to fit it for Spin ning, zxz idling Drying, he Seed of Flax has leveral cpjifiderablc Pro.qrtics!. It enters the Cdinpolition of ieyerMcdicincs, and yields ait i Oil, bv ExprclTion, which has "moll of. the Properties of Nut-Oil and whkh is frequently uled, in defect thereof' in Painting, '65r.

TJrat drawn cold is rtpured gooti in Mt- vers Difcafcs..

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Years Available:
1728-1815