—Y~" so scattered, 
Paper. 
Hat. 
Various 
ENGLAND. 
optical lasses. This manufacture is 
to form an estimate of 
that it is 
init. The former, however, amount to upwards 
of L.1,000,000 ; and the latter to between 30,000 and 
40,000. p 
whi first made ; 
te, blue, and 
of persons employed about 30,000. 
. There are paper mills on almost every stream, the wa- 
ter of which is sufficiently pure for the ; but 
perhaps they are most numerous and extensive in the 
this last county, the for the Bank of 
notes has been ever since the reign of 
George I. 
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snuff-mills at Chester, Bristol, Live 
ter. S refineries at London, Bristol, Liverpool, 
and Newcastle. Soap manufactories are established in 
many parts of the country ; but London, Bristol, New- 
castle, and Hull have them, perhaps, on a more exten- 
sive scale than other places. are also manufac. 
tures of turpentine, linseed, rape, and other oils, The 
preparation of horse hair, furs, and feathers, employ a 
good many people. Brick-making is extensively car- 
ried on in the vicinity of Lon and near those 
towns where stone is scarce and dear. But it would 
be endless, we perceive, even to attempt an enumera- 
tion of all the various kinds of manufactures of Eng- 
land. We shall, therefore, conclude this branch of our 
subject, mentioning those manufactures, which are 
either to London, or carried on there to the 
shing, than the extent and mag- 
nitude of the whole through the kingdom at large. By 
as this part of our subject, we shall also 
ve an opportunity of mentioning i 
nufactures which af may have overlooked. 
The manufactures of Lond 
eet and articles of elegant use, brought to more than 
ordinary degree of perfection ; such as cutlery, 
assay ice of gold and silver, japan ware, cut 
glass, (dri king glastes, cut in perce Prete nnn 
as guineas : inet and u 
work, and uate sD . The pote 
, and number of men employed in the manu- 
two articles, are not less surprising, 
ance of taste and high perfection which 
ed in the articles themselves ; both of which, 
carriages, are exported to a great amount. 
ved that the trade of a coach currier is car- 
here but in London, That of a gold-beater, 
ither exclusively confined to the metropolis, or 
elsewhere. Clocks and watches, icu- 
, are a very considerable article of manu- 
ish of Clerkenwell containing, it is said, 
7000 watch-makers. The value of the 
pags crea Seog amen pp made in London and 
its neighbourhood, is e £1,000,000, in t of 
sucks the watch-makers of the a ation, 
watches, not only for all the British dominions, but also 
for all the civilised world. London is likewise celebra- 
ted for the exquisite skill in the construction of its opti- 
cal and other ical instruments. Besides these 
kinds of manufactures, and others which have been in- 
cidentally mentioned before, such as hats, &c. 
breweries, vi works, copperas works, calico-print- 
vinegar 
ing, distilleries, glue manufactories, iron founderies, oil 
ie 
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ner ae 
: 
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ther all, in order that an adequate idea may be formed 
on this subject. i 
mee here hats ; bee dae pore at dressed in 
3 , W. ite ‘] der, 
hard white tap of de best quality in grea abundance, 
i, and Glouces- Statistics. 
on consist chiefly of fine jy London. 
