cisterns; the frames are made of fine wire, and the workman stands
by the cistern and takes up the pulp on the frames. The sheets when
sufficiently dry are hung on lines to dry completely, after which
they are sized, if sizing be required.

"We now make our paper by machinery, in which the pulp is let to run
on a web of wire, and passing over several cylinders, the last of
which is heated by steam, it is dried and fit for use in about two
minutes from its having been in a liquid state."

Since that reply the Government of India, under the pressure of the
home authorities, has alternately discouraged and fostered the
manufacture of paper on the spot. At present it is in the wiser
position of preferring to purchase its supplies in India, at once as
being cheaper, and that it may develop the use of the many
paper-making fibres there. Hence at the Calcutta Exhibition of
1881-82 the jurors began their report on the machine and hand-made
paper submitted to them, with a reference to Carey and this report
of his. The Serampore mills were gradually crushed by the expensive
and unsatisfactory contracts made at home by the India Office. The
neighbouring Bally mills seem to flourish since the abandonment of
that virtual monopoly, and Carey's anticipations as to the
utilisation of the plantain and other fibres of India are being
realised nearly a century after he first formed them.

Carey expanded and published his "Address respecting an Agricultural
Society in India" in the quarterly Friend of India. He still thinks
it necessary to apologise for his action by quoting his hero,
Brainerd, who was constrained to assist his Indian converts with his
counsels in sowing their maize and arranging their secular concerns.