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or wool ; the governors provide both, and pay them, without any de- 

 duftion, for their work. By thefe means, out of three hundred and 

 forty e.ght famihes above five hundred fouls were trained to induftry 

 The direaors informed me of three children, the eldeft. nine years 

 of age, who, by fpinning, gained fix reals, that is, more than four- 

 teen pence a day, and fupported a paralytic father. 



" Not fatisfied with thefe exertions, they have eftabhflied fchools, in 

 different quarters of the city, on the fame plan, and providing the 

 beft mafters, in every branch of bufmefs, which they wifli to cultivate, 

 they admit freely all who are defirous of being taught. 



« It is their intention, to pick out, from the brighteft of the boys 

 the beft draftfmen, and having inftrucled them in the various languages 

 ofEuroj,e, to make them travel, for the acquifition of knowledge, and 

 the advancement of manufaftures. 



«' As the furrounding pariflies may not find it convenient, to adopt fi- 

 milar mftitut.ons, on a fmaller fcale ; therefore, they receive the infants, 

 the aged, and the infirm, from any of them, on condition of being 

 paid, in due proportion, for their board."_This is a magnificent iketch 

 of a fyftem of public inftitution, with a view to arts and induftry. The 

 intelligent traveller feems to queftion the utility of fome parts of the 

 plan; yet, furely, the account of this eftabliihment, may furnifli many 

 important hmts, and matter of much profitable rcfleffion, to the Icgifla- 

 ture of th.s country.-I have now appropriated fuflicient fpace to the 

 fubjeft of education. It is time to examine other general methods of 

 improving and encouraging manufaftures.* 



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» Some fimihr regulations are beginning to be put in praftice, of late, at the Houfe 

 ot induitry, in Dublin. 



