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earn from eight to ten flii'lings per week. The 

 women and girls fpin it by a wheel fo contrived as 

 to draw a thread with each hand; by which means, 

 izvo of them can earn at leafl equal wages with three 

 women fpinning with one hand only. If the build- 

 ing (hould be enlarged, and the number of pri- 

 foners increafe, fome of them will then be intruded 

 in the art of weaving the yarn made in the houfe. 

 At prefent, both the tow and the yarn are fold to 

 the different houfes of indullry efiablifhcd in this 

 county, and at Norwich. In the laft return of 

 the governor to the quartcr-feflions, we had the fa- 

 tisfadion to find, that tlie money arifing from the 

 earnings of the prifoncrs, \Aas one pound eight 

 fliillings and ten-pence more than donUe the fum 

 expended for their maintenance. 



This, though it cannot be deemed more than a 

 Jecondary confideration, is furely no triflino- one to 

 derive a projlt from the labour of fuch perfons as 

 were heretofore lofl: to, or become a burden upon 

 the publick; and it firongly marks the impolicy of 

 fending thefc unhappy objects out of the kingdom. 

 This fum indeed was further increafed about five 

 guineas, by adding to it the profit from the trade 

 account; but as to have this become the general 

 refulc, mufl depend greatly, perhaps chiefly, upon 

 the choice of the governor, a.-.d fomcwhat on the 



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