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Show COLOURED WATERMARK 27 were made as paper and by papermakers, and no man has eve been bold enough to say he can produce the cffects here produce by any process subsequent to the original formation of the paper "This fact alone therefore, amounts to no ordinary security fo most assuredly the forger cannot as at present by various simpl means take a piece of common paper and produce the appearan ofa watermark upon it. He must, as I have already observed, absolutely go through the process of papermaking, and moreover t produce the extraordinary clear watermark thus given he mus discover and pursue a process quite new and litele likely to be suspected even by an expert papermaker, of dipping the three layer of pulp, one upon the other, without couching, and stil further o ‘making the coloured layer in clear water. I say, thercfore, that a this new and extraordinar system of manipulation has been foun essential to the production of the néw watermark so peculiarl clear and transparent, there is no probability, for the present at al events, of its being imitated even by a papermaker "In the second place, as to the security arising from the introduction of colour. It s evident that the tint in the interior of th paper gives a brilliancy to the watermark which cannot be oblitcrated by the wearing of the note, or by its being soiled, wherea in the present white note, after being considerably rubbed an soiled, it is extremely difficult to distinguish the watermark. Another very important advantage in the introduction of colour i the interior of the note is that it is a much greater security than th thinness of the present paper against attempting any alteration i the value of a note, such as the makinga ten pound out of a one o two pound note by erasure. This is a mode of forgery that has bee practiced with the present paper, but with the coloured paper an erasure which would not show on colourless paper would produc a greater strength of colour by laying bare the interior "With regard to the particular colour, the pale blue as far as ap |