520 
rooms, and the windows had shut- 
ters to pull to at night. The 
younger part of the sex are, as be- 
fore stated, employed with their 
brothers, under the direction of 
theircommon father Adams, in the 
culture of the ground, which pro- 
duced cocoa-nuts, bananas, the 
bread-fruit tree, yams, sweet po- 
tatoes, and turnips. They have also 
plenty ofhogsand goats; the woods 
abound with a species of wild hog, 
and the. coasts of the island with 
several kinds of good fish. 
Their agricultural implements 
are made by themselves from the 
iron supplied by the Bounty, 
which, with great labour, they 
beat out into spades, hatchets, &c. 
This was not all. The good old 
man kept a regular journal, in 
which was entered the nature and 
quantity of work performed by 
each family, what each had re- 
ceived, and what was due on ac- 
count, There was, it seems, be- 
sides private property, a sort of 
general stock, out of which arti- 
cles were issued, on account, to 
the several members of the com- 
munity; and for mutual accom- 
modation, exchanges of one kind 
of provision for another were 
very frequent, as salt for fresh 
provisions, vegetables and fruit 
for poultry, fish, &c.; also, when 
the stores of one family were low, 
or wholly expended, a fresh sup- 
ply was raised from another, or 
out of the general stock, to be re- 
paid when circumstances were 
more favourable ;—all of which 
were carefully noted down in 
John Adams’s Journal. 
SHAWL MANUFACTORY AT 
CASHMEER. 
fiSrom Elphinston’s Account of Caubul.) 
The most remarkable produc- 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1815. 
tion of Cashmeer is its shawls 
which supply the whole world 
and which are said to be manu- 
factured atsixteen thousand looms, 
each of which gives employment 
to three men. 
The following is anextract from 
the report drawn up by Mr. Stra- 
chey, who made many inquiries on 
this subject, and who had some 
shawl stuffs made under his own 
inspection, of wool procured at 
Umritsir. | The manufacturers 
were pioneers belonging to the 
embassy, and they warked.in a 
common tent; yet they appeared 
to find no difficulty in their em~ 
ployment. ‘ A shop may be oc- 
cupied with oneshawl, provided 
it bea remarkably fine one above a 
year, whileothershops make six or 
eight in the course of that period. 
Of the best and most worked 
kinds, not so much as a quarter 
of an inch is completed in one 
day, by three people, which is the 
usual number employed at most 
of the shops. Shawls containing 
much work are made in separate 
pieces at different shops, and it 
may be observed that it very rare- 
ly happens that the pieces, when 
completed, correspond in size. 
‘‘ The shops consist of a frame 
work, at which the persons em- 
ployed sit on a bench ; their num- 
ber is from two to four... On 
plain shawls, two people alone are 
employed, and a long, narrow, but 
heavy shuttle is used; those of 
which the pattern is variegated, 
are worked with wooden needles, 
there being a separate, needle for 
the thread of each colour; for the 
latter, no shuttle is required. The 
operation of their manufacture is 
of course slow, proportionate to 
the quantity of work which thei 
patterns may require. 
