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a large manufactory of carpets, and fancy woollens. 
Devizes, a confiderable manufactory chiefly of fancy 
woollens. Bradford, Trowbridge, Warminfter, 
Weftbury, and all the adjacent towns and villages, 
from Chippenham to Heytefbury inclufive, carry 
on moft extenfive manufactories of woollen goods, 
a great part of which is fuperfine broad-cloths, 
kerfeymeres, and fancy cloths. 
At Mere, and its neighbourhood, there is a ma- 
nufaétory of linen, chiefly dowlas and bed-ticks. 
At Aldbourn, a manufactory of cotton goods, 
chiefly fuftians and thickfets. 
At Swindon, and its neighbourhood, a confider- 
ble manufactory of gloves. 
Indeed, there is fcarcely a town in the county, 
that has not a manufacture of fome kind or other. 
The vaft population of the county of Wilts, oc- 
cafioned by their various and extenfive manufac- 
tures, and the daily increafe of population of Bath 
and Briftol, occafion a never-failing demand for all 
the produétions of the land of this county. 
The wheat, and in particular the barley, the 
cheefe, and butter, and every other neceflary of 
human food, are fure to find a market, 
Thefe are undoubtedly advantages, and very 
great ones, ta the landholders of this-county in 
general; but, perhaps, more to the landholders at a 
few miles diftance from the feat of manufactures, 
than to thofe immediately on the fpot, ; 
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