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by any of the methods previously in use. At 
that period, millwrights, as well as the supe- 
rior workmen above mentioned, were more 
generally employed in the establishments for 
spinning cotton than formerly, and anew sti- 
mulus was given to almost all kinds of manu- 
factories then in the country, extending their 
circle wider and wider, and encreasing the ge- 
neral demand for labourers, until it became 
very difficult to find a supply for the extensive 
works erecting. Any common observer might 
easily perceive the effect of this great demand 
for labour on the morals of those employed. 
Having lost their attachment torural employ- 
ment and the avocations they had left, and be- 
ing united by slender ties to their new employ- 
ers, they became unsettled, and more indifferent 
than formerly to the good opinion of their 
neighbours; and consequently became less | 
respected by them. Every one had it more in 
his power to consult his own inclinations as 
to the occupation he should follow; but all 
were compelled to exert themselvesto procure 
alivelihood, having noclaimson their employ- 
ers unless they didso. Although their morals 
were in some degree impaired, their industry 
was accompanied with: an activity of mind, 
and a dexterity of workmanship, which are 
seldom found in the more solitary employment 
