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bourhood of fuch diftri<as, as abound in flieep-walks. It would be alfo 

 a great advantage to the manufafturer, as he would then have the 

 primiim of his manufafture brought to his door, in fuch quantities, as 

 would give him a free choice, at a fair price, inftead of his being ob- 

 hged, as is now the cafe, to refort to dillant marts, and convey the raw 

 material to his manufaclory, at a heavy additional expence ; or to prac- 

 tife the unfair mode of going about among the farmers, and foreflalling 

 the wool, which ought to come to open market. To encourage the 

 fellers and buyers of wool, to frequent the newly eftabliflied fairs or 

 markets ; I would propofe, to grant a premium of fo much per cent, 

 on the amount of all wool ; that fliould be fold in fuch fair, or mar- 

 ket, during a period of five or feven years, from its firfl: eflablifh- 

 ment, after which time, if the fituation were judicioufly chofen, it might 

 be fuppofed, the market would fubfift, of itfelf. 



There is no part of the woollen manufafture, in which we are more 

 deficient, than in the art of dying. There could not, therefore, be any 

 fervice fo effeftually rendered to it, as by encouraging perfons of che- 

 mical ikill, to apply themfelves, to the improvement of the art of dy- 

 ing. I have mentioned, in a former feclion, how folicitous the great 

 Colbert was, on this head ; and how much his cares have contributed 

 to the fubfequent perfection of the woollen manufafture in France. 



Premiums Ihould alfo be propofed, to flimulate the indullry of natu- 

 ralifts, in fearching for veins of pipe-clay and fuller's earth ; or in their 

 endeavouring to difcover forae cheap and effectual fubflitute for thefe 

 that would equally anfwer the purpofe of the fcourer. There are many 

 mineral produfiions, as alum, copperas, verdigreafe, and feveral other 

 fubftances, that are ufed in the procefs of dying, as colours in them- 

 felves, or as agents, in the fixing or tranfrautation of colours. There 

 are ufeful vegetables, as woad and madder, which are generally em- 

 ployed by dyers, in the coarfer and lefs delicate kinds of red and green. — 

 As to all thefe fubftances, and many others, which might be enume- 

 rated, it is certain, that thofe of the mineral kingdom, might be ob- 

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