318 on the woollen manufacture. Oct. 30 
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ConsIDERATIONS, ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE) 
MANUFACTURE OF WoOL IN GeEAT BRITAIN. * 
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Written a few years ago. 
For the Bee. 
Tae advantages that have, accrued to these kings 
doms, from the introduction of large machines for 
spinuing cotton, are. so numerous and so conspicus 
ous, as to render any encomiums. on such machines 
vunnecefsary; yet it may be proper to mention one or 
two circumstances, that have: not, been generally até 
tended to: they have served to convince the publi¢ 
of what vast service the use of machines is, in car- 
rying on great works, and have fully demonstrated 
the futility of every argument, adduced with a de- 
sign to fhow that they tend to diminifh the number 
of hands employed in any manufacture, or lefsen the 
profits of the industrious labourer: If any one yet 
retains such an opinion; let him examine the coun- 
ties of Lancaster, Chefhire, Derby, Nottingham 
&c. where such machives have been most generally 
establifhed, and he will find his suspicions totally 
without foundation ; the number of hands employed 
in.the cotton works being increased beyond credibi- 
lity, and the earnings’ of, the industrious, both men 
and women, raised much higher than they used to 
be. 
These are facts which admit not of dispute ; and if 
the spiuning cotton by cugiues on a large scale, has - 
