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of Palma, however, are extremely industrious, in whose 

 dwellings is to be seen, besides their ordinary utensils of 

 house-hold work, either a small loom for weaving ribbons, 

 garters, and other trifling articles, or reels for winding the 

 silk which is produced in that island. Within a few 

 years, they have very much improved the quality of their 

 manufactures, and now produce some excellent samples of 

 different kinds of silk cloths, which possess almost as 

 much firnmess as the French fabric, and of far greater 

 substance, but deficient in gloss and colors, which distin- 

 tinguish the latter, which they ha.\e not the means of imi- 

 tating. 



Boston, VN'ednesdav, ) 

 3Iay 21, 1834. ' \ 



