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Mints respecting the progress of manufactures, 



AND THEIR PRESENT STATE IN SCOTLAND. 



The manufactures of Scotland continue to prosper in a 

 surprising degree. Every day produces some new im- 

 provement on the old, or some useful invention for lay- 

 ing the foundation of new manufactures there. It is a' 

 pleasing thing to contemplate these progrefsive improve- 

 ments, in the low and populous parts of the country. How 

 much is it to be regretted, that it does not extend over 

 the whole I 



Cotton manufacture. 



It is scarcely fifteen years since the first yard of cotton 

 cloth was woven in this country ; and only about twelve 

 years since the first mill for carding and spinning cotton 

 wool was erected ; now, there are at least a dozen ccttou 

 mills on a large scale, containing from three to four thousand 

 spindles each, going both night and day, besides an inde- 

 finite number of smaller ones in every part of the country. 

 Yet such is the demand for the cotton manufactures of Scot- 

 land, that all the-se are insufficient for keeping the wea- 

 vers at work J so that cotton yarn, to the value of more 

 than L. 500,000 is annually imported from England. 

 Riders from the continent are now seen frequently in 

 Scotland, not for the purpose of taking commifsions for 

 their own manufactures, but for commifsioning the manu- 

 factures of this country. 



Woollen carded and spun by machinery. 



The difference between the mode of manufacturing cot- 

 ton and animal wool is so small, that, after the succef- 

 ful operations on cotton by machinery, it was not to b« 

 expected attempts would not be made to card and spia 

 animal wool in the same way. For some time these at- 



