of the Cotton Trade. Tt? 
principle arose a foreign trade, with all its 
train of changes and fluctuations, much greater 
perhaps than the fluctuations of the home 
trade which preceded it; and the consequen- 
ces were, I believe, nearly asfollow. With 
their new connexions, the manufacturers soon 
found that they could not supply the increased 
demand for their cloths, and the first consi- 
deration was, how they were to produce a 
greater quantity in their respective families. 
Itnaturally occurred to them that, if they had 
another loom, or another hand to spin, they 
might be able to Bia diicd this additional de- 
mand. 
But, if they were all employed before, this 
could not be done, unless they could make 
some arrangement by which the same num- 
ber of hands might produce a greater quantity 
of cloth. By separating their different ope- 
rations, and dividing them, with some order, 
between the different members of the family, 
they found, that more could be produced. 
But in the small compass of a single family, 
division of labour could not be carried far. 
The next consideration was, could they get 
a neighbour to card or to spin for them, they 
might then be able to weave a still greater 
quantity. The attention of each being thus 
‘directed to fewer objects, they proceeded, im- 
