212 on the cotton manufactures Oct. Qs 
ported in 1792 could be under 40,000,000 libs, nor. 
that the value of cotton goods manufactured from it. 
could be lefs than 15,co0,o00 ]. but if in the course of 
ten years, the value of this branch of manufacture 
rose Irom two to fifteen millions, and if our exer- 
tions to extend it farther and farther continued, it is 
easy to see, that a time must soon come, when that 
progrefsive extention must be stopped ; especially 
when we advert that other nations were at the same 
time availing themselves of those very machines 
which had given us that temporary advantage, and 
thus supplying themselves with this commodity. 
Yet so blind were many persons, that they believed, 
as it fhould seem, that this businefs never could be o~ 
ver-done, and from the amazing rapidity of its pro- 
grefs for some years past, they augured that its 
progrefs would be accelerated in time to come with~ 
outend!! : 
While this subject is under review, it may not 
prove unsatisfactory to the reader to see an accu- 
rate account of the places from whence we obtained 
the raw materials for this extensive manufacture, 
which the above named committee have enabled us 
to do. ‘These areas under: 
An acconnt of the quantity of wool cotton ditt 
ed into Great Britain, between the sth of January 
