even a shelter, and they must wait with patience the returning seasons before they can reap the fruits of their industry.  All these considerations cannot be too strongly urged on the mind of the emigrant, for if they are not expected and guarded against, disappointment and vexation will assuredly ensue.  “It is a matter of the first importance,” says Mr. M’Gregor, “for a man living in the United Kingdom, to consider, before he determines on expatriation, whether he can, by industry and integrity, obtain a tolerably comfortable livelihood in the country of his nativity; whether, in order to secure to his family the certain means of subsistence, he can willingly part with his friends, and leave scenes that must have been dear to his heart from childhood; and whether, in order to attain to independence, he can reconcile himself to suffer the inconveniency of a sea voyage, and the fatigue of removing with his family from the port where he disembarks in America, to the spot of ground in the forest on which he may fix for the theatre of his future operations; whether he can reconcile himself for two or three years, to endure many privations to which he had hitherto been unaccustomed, and to the hard labour of levelling and burning the forest, and raising crops from a soil with natural obstructions, which require much industry to remove.  If, after making up his mind to all these considerations, he resolves on emigrating, he will not be disappointed in realizing in America any reasonable prospect he may have entertained in Europe.  These difficulties are, indeed, such as would often stagger the resolution of most emigrants, if they had not before them, in every part of America, examples of men who must have encountered and have overcome equally, if not more disheartening hardships, before they attained a state of comfortable affluence.”—­Quart.  Journ.  Agr.

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THE SILK MANUFACTURE.

The principal branches of this manufacture consist in the dyeing, winding, warping, throwing, and weaving.  The first needs no explanation; the winding is the process between the throwing and the weaving.  After the silk is thrown it is dyed, and then wound off preparatory to the loom.  The warping is stretching the parallel threads on the loom, preparatory to weaving.

Throwing silk, is twisting two threads into one for the purpose of weaving.  The single thread, as wound off from the cocoon, is designated the raw silk.

There are two descriptions of thrown silk.  One is called tram, and consists of two threads simply twisted together.  This description of thrown silk is used in the shuttle or transverse threads of a piece of silk on the loom.  The other variety of thrown silk is called organzine.  In this, the single threads are first twisted up, previous to their being twisted together.  This is used for the warp, or parallel threads upon the loom.