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fabric, that the demand for it far exceeds the quantity 

 they can produce. 



Weaving by machinery. 



This has been attempted in sevc.al places, we are toldi 

 with succefs ; and it is htre mentionsd barely to mark, 

 the period when this improvemenr began to be adopted ; 

 for it has not yet been carried to a great extent any 

 wliere. There can be no doubt but in time it will be- 

 come universal, in regard to all fabrics that consist of a 

 strong chain or warp. 



G/afs manufacture. 



About thirty years ago there was only one glafs house 

 company in Scotland 3 the hands working half the year 

 at Leith, and half the year at Glasgow ; and their ope- 

 rations were so languid, that one house now will perform 

 more than double the work this could then execute ; there 

 are now- six glafs houses at Leith alone, besides a great 

 many others in different parts ot the country. 



At the time I first mention, nothing else than bottles 

 of coarse green glafe was made there ; and to that article, 

 the glafs house company at Leith confined their efforts, 

 till about a dozen years ago, when they began to make fine 

 glafs for phials, and other articles of that nature. About 

 four years ago, they introduced the manufacture of crown 

 glafs for windows, which tnev now make in great perfecti- 

 on, and in considerable quantities. 



After they began to manuiaciure white glafs, they fell 

 into the way of cutting it for ornament, and engraving 

 upon it. In this last department they have reached a 

 higher degree of perfection than It has perhaps any where 

 else ever yet attained. A young man who was bred to 

 that businefs, having discovered a taste in designing, 

 and an elegance of execution that was verv uncommon, 

 the proprietors of the work were at pains to give 



