Richard Hall, a Dublin hemp and flax dresser, describes Dutch methods of growing and processing hemp and flax, with comments on how they could be adapted in Ireland and on Mr. Slator's books. Sections cover soil choice, plowing, pulling, watering (retting), breaking, hackling, spinning, bleaching and weaving sail-canvas, making brass reeds, and the sowing, rippling, rating, scutching, hackling and spinning of flax. Woodcuts and diagrams show hemp-drying frames, a yarn-wringing engine, a reed-making engine, a rippling bench and a scutching handle. Originally printed in Dublin in 1724, this is the Boston reprint of 1735 for New England readers.