Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan in Asia, Africa, and Europe, During the Years 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, and 1803 e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The manufacture of needles astonished me. A bundle of steel wires was thrown into a wheel, which, at one turn, threw them out on the Opposite side, cut into a number of pieces of the proper length: these were caught in a basket by a boy, who handed them to a person whose business it was to form the eyes and aha-pen the points, both of which he efl'ected by machinery in the shortest time imaginable.