Date: 1854
This is an important process; for not only is space saved on shipboard by close packing, but the goods are less liable to be injured by the access of sea water.  So wonderfully great is the quantity of merchandize thus despatched, that not only is a hydraulic press employed to condense the bales into the smallest possible space, but a steam-engine is even employed to work the hydraulic press — an exertion of power within power singularly efficient.  Mr. Kohl gives one or two interesting exemplifica tions of tbe mode of marking and guaranteeing these masses of manufactured goods : — " As the wares con tained in the great bales, some of which weigh more than fifteen hundred-weight, are often of a very mis cellaneous kind, little pattern-books are sent off with each bale, containing not only the quantity, quality, price, &c, of the different goods, but a neat little specimen of each.