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in the pound and upward yearly. But Iam inclined 
to afcribe this heavy burthen on the landed intereft, 
more to the vicious and profligate habits of the 
weavers, who can, if good hands, earn a guinea and 
a halfa week; which, fuppofing the carding and 
{pinning machines to have deprived the women 
and children entirely of employment, is certainly 
fufficient, properly laid out, to maintain their fa- 
milies comfortably. But the- misfortune is, thefe 
earnings very feldom find their way home, but are 
wafted in a publick-houfe, whilft the families are 
clothed and fed at the expence of the parifh, and 
the men themfelves, notwithftanding their great 
earnings, are ragged and miferable in appearance; 
and in the event of a weck’s illnefs, or a tem- 
porary fufpenfion of the particular branch of the 
manufactory they are bred to, are reduced to the 
greateft diftrefs. This evil is not peculiar to the 
clothing manufactory, but is common to all I have 
had any acquaintance with; it is a complicated 
evil, and, if capable of any remedy, requires a much 
abler pen than mine to point opt the means. 
N. B. Thefe laft remarks on manufaCtures and poors 
rates, are in fubftance a repetition of what the ingenious 
author had before made on the fame fubjects, in his accofmt 
of the former diftrict, and therefore may be confidered as 
applicable to all parts of the county where the manufacture 
is carried on, ‘The truth of them may be liable to con- 
troverfy from perfons in particular fituations; but much 
truth 
