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been productive of such’ general good, how much 
more benefit will arrise fromthe preparing and 
spinning wool by a like method! I fhall endeavour 
to point out some of those advantages, leaving the 
reader’s mind to furnifh many others, which the 
space Tallow myself will not permit me to enlarge 
upon. ¢ 
1. Cotton being an article of foreign growth, may be 
imported by any other commercial nation, as the 
French, Spaniards, €§c. in any quantity required, 
whenever they thall haveintroduced such machines 
as have been already used in England; and that at- 
tempts tg obtain and ‘introduce’ them into foreign 
‘countries have been made, is well known ; but wool, 
which is peculiarly the growth of this’ country, and 
‘considered the staple commodity of it, can hardly be 
worked to advantage elsewhere, if, by increasing the 
consumption of'it in our own manufactures, a stop 
is put to the practice of smuggling it into other coun- 
‘tries, by which illicit practice only, foreigners have 
been enabled to undersel us in distant markets. 
2. The land holder would be greatiy benefitted by 
‘the introduction of large machines in the manufac. 
‘ture of wool ; for as the demand for that article may 
reasonably be expected to increase as much, at least, 
‘as that for cotton has done, the breeding of fheep will 
‘Increase, ‘and the value of land rise in the same propor 
‘tion. The whole’ nation will indeed be benefitted in 
‘a mode distinct from the enlargement of its com- 
-merce ; for from the quantity of fheep bred, provisi- 
-ons wil! be lowered, and from the cheapnefs at which 
‘all woollen goods may be manufactured, they will 
