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machine for woollen fabrics, by the same engineer. An eight- color perrotiue printing-machine, constructed and exhibited by C. Bialon, of Berlin. Finally, what appeared to be a remarkable machine for embroidery, by Reitmann, of St. Gall, Switzerland.
Other textile fabric machinery and apparatus, of equal, or even greater importance, may have escaped the notice of the writer of this paper: whose knowledge of machinery is limited, and whose time for its examination was short.
A single remark concerning the Philadelphia Exhibition. If Massachusetts is to be well represented there, she must make wise and timely preparation. The countries that made such preparation, of which England was one and Belgium another, were most successful at Vienna.
While Massachusetts is greatly in advance of all the other States in respect to several important industries, reliable statistics show that she is behind four others in the silk industry, and especially in the matter of weaving.
The undersigned will conclude this brief and necessarily imperfect Report on the branch of the Exhibition in which he ^as most interested and spent most time, by expressing the tope that the attention of our capitalists, and others, may be so directed to the silk manufacture, that we may at no distant day 5 occupy in this the same enviable position that we hold in other branches of the textile industry.
HORATIO G. KNIGHT,
Associate Commissioner for Massachusetts to Exposition at Vienna.