INDIAN RUBBER SHOES.
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Mr.. Willis says in one of his letters that he
found no Indian Rubber shoes in England. and
expressed his surprise that fabric 50 useful in
a damp climate should be wanting. The vaiua-
BILE and useful purposes to which Indian Rubber
has been applied are so numerous and so lncreas-
ing that we have no time to enumerate them.
There is very extensive manufactory of shoes
of this article in Nangatuck. in Connrticut. from
the massive overshoe to the delicate ladys slipper
or gaiter. The editor of the Rochester Democrat
thus describes the process. Thes India Rubber,
as imported is cut up into small pieces, and being
mixed with camPhine (which dissoIres the Indian
Rubber,) by a grinding process, assumes the tex
ture of white gum. In this form, it is rolled
through cylinders, and made into sheets of about
the width and thickness of common cotton cloth


In this form it is carried into the room, where it
is used up for soles and uppers for shoes put to-
gcther by its own adhesive property upon a last,
and when thus formed, it is hung UP in furnace