con- sidered. I learn from the pages of pro- fane history of three separate and dis- tinct expeditions to what is still a terra incognita to modern savants. While Biblical history informs us of the commercial relations existing be- tween King Solomon and a land called by them Ophir, the latter

manufacture of whisky. Every far- mer at that time had a patch of flax and every farmer's wife had her spin- ning wheel, spinning the thread which Hersh made into sheetings,table cloths, pant stuffs and grain bags. There were made at this mill goods known as "Linsey Woolsey"—one-half linen and the other wool