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Show EARLY WRITER 3 time. The book was publishe in London in 1662 and is arrange by counties, with the commodities, manufactures, ctc. of cach, followed by brief biographies of its "worthies." He says of pa "Paper participates in some sart of the characters of the countr which made it; the Venctian being neat, subtle, and courtJike the French, hgh(, dight, and slender; and the Dutch, thick, corpulent, and gros , sucking up the ink with the sponginess thereof e e object that we can never equal the perfection o Venice paper, I return, neither can we match the purity of Venic glasses; and yet many green ones are blown in Sussex, profitabl t0 the makers, and convenient to the users. Our home-spun pape might be found benefic The earliest reference in any publication to the Rittenhouse mil or t aking in America appeared inl'h\l.xddphm in 169 and was written by Richard Frame, thetitle of the book being A short description of Pennsilvania, m, A Relation of Wha things are known, enjoyed, and like to be discovered in the sai Province. Presented as a Token of Good Wil to the people o England. The Rittenhouse mill, as noted in Parts V and VII was the first in the colonics, having been established near Germantown, Pennsylvania, about 1690. The verses are printed in full The German-Town, of which I spoke before heir trade fits well within thi enience for their OCCasm \gsin employmen for another So that we may 5uppo<c rom Linen Rags good Paper doth derive ‘The first Trade keeps the second Trade alive Digital Imag © 2004 University of Utah. All rights reserved |