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rhe nift place, the demand for fpun cotton, which is, as it were, the 

 primum of an infinite variety of fabrics, for wearing apparel, aod fur- 

 nfture, proceeding from the loom, exclufive of that of ftockings. Can- 

 dlewick, which employs the coarfer parts of the cotton wool in gene- 

 ral, and cotton wool of inferior quality, is an article in very extenfive 

 demand ; and large quantities of it, are, at prefent imported into this 

 country. 



In the next place, the natural advantages of this ifland are highly 

 flattering ; the noble fituations which a country fo well watered as 

 Ireland, every where offers for the ereftion of machinery, muft capti- 

 vate the eye of fpeculation ; and gradually may lead the manufafturer 

 of cotton, in the web, as he encreafes his capital ; to fink a part of it 

 in mills, and machinery, and fupply himfelf with fpun cotton whether 

 weft or warp, which is to him as a raw material, and which he now 

 imports from Britain. Thus, the number of water-mills, and other 

 machines may encreafe, until, in procefs of time, this country may be- 

 come able to fumifli the home market, with every part of the cotton 

 manufafture, that machinery can produce. . 



A third and mofl: important confideration is, that, although the prime 

 coft of the raw material is very confiderable, the derivative or ad- 

 ventitious value of cotton manufaftures is very great, fo that few ex- 

 ertions of induftry and produftive labour propofe higher rewards to 

 the Ikill and application of the workman. A pound of raw cotton 

 wool may be worth from two to three ftiillings per lb. weight. The fame 

 weight of <:otton warp, or twill produced from Arkwright's water ma- 

 chine may rife in value to five pounds flerling. Such an aftonifliing 

 return for the employment of capital, and exertion of induftry, muft 

 prove a moll powerful incentive indeed, to the profecution of a ma- 

 rufafture. 



It is, however, worthy of remark, that large eftablifliments for the 

 profecution of the cotton manufafture have been injurious to the morals 

 and health of young people. 



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