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fpirit, which, in a very peculiar degree, formerly 
kept a Wiltfhire labourer from the parifh books. 
The farmers complain, and with reafon, that the 
labourers do lefs work than formerly; when, in 
fact, the labourers are not able to work as they did 
at a time when they lived better. 
There is no neceffity of heightening this melan- 
choly picture, every landholder of the county knows 
it too well; and the refident magiftrates, in parti- 
cular, have it daily in their view; and, to their cre- 
dit be it fpoken, the landholders are ufing every 
exertion, by premiums, bounties, and other indul- 
gencies, to introduce new kinds of employ for the 
poor, to fupply the lofs of {pinning wool for the 
cloth manufacturers, or to induce the manufac- 
turers {till to bring them wool, by giving boun- 
ties equal to what they can fave by {pinning it at 
home by machines. 
MANUFACTURES, 
Tuer extent of commerce, or rather of manufac- 
tures, in the county of Wilts, is very great indeed ; 
but the woollen manufactory is, by far, the moft 
general. 
Salifbury manufactures great quantities of flan= 
nels, and fancy woollens, and has a confiderable 
manufactory of cutlery and fteel goods. Wilton, 
a large 
