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Show profitable to the makers, and convenient to the users, Our home.spu paper might be found beneficial FRAME, RICHARD A short description of Pennsilvania, Or, A Relation of What things ar known, enjoyed, and like to be discovered in the said Province. Presente asa token of Good Will to the people of England. Philadelphia, 1692In this book may be found the following poem regarding the Rittenbous paper mill, established near Germantown, Pennsylvania, about 1690 The German-Town, of which Ispoke before Which is, at least in length one Mile or more Where lives High-German People, and Low.Dutch Whose Trade in weaving Linen Cloth is much There grows the Flax, as also you may know That from the same they do divide the Tow "Their trade fits well within this Habitation ‘We find Convenience for their Occasion One Trade brings in employment for another So that we may suppose each Trade a Brother From Linen Rags good Paper doth derive The first Trade keeps the second Trade alive Without the first, the second cannot be Therefore since these two can so well agree Convenience doth appear to place them nigh One in German-Town, tother hard by A Paper-Mill near German. Town doth stand So that the Flax, which first springs from the Land First Flax, then Yarn, and then they must begi To weave the same, which they took pains to spin Also, when on our backs it is well worn Some of the same remains Ragged and Torn Then of the Rags our Paper itis made ‘Which in process of time dost waste and fade So, what comes from the Earth, appeareth plain The same in Time, returns to Earth again MANDEY, VENTER Mechanick Powers; or, The Mystery of Nature and Art unvail'd, Shewing what Great T hings may be perform'd by Mechanick Engines, i removing and raising Bodies of vast Weights: with lttle Strength o 2 © 2005 Marriott Library U of Utah. Al rights reserved |