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diaper, and plain diaper -, thirdly, checquer. I wifhed 

 very much to have had it in my power to give an ac- 

 count, as near the truth as could be obtained, of the 

 number of pieces of the firft kind manufactured, or 

 rather fold, in a given period j but that, after fome 

 consideration, I found imprafticable, becaufe a confide- 

 rable part of them are fold in markets not within the 

 county, and are intermixed with thofe from other 

 parts ; for example, the linens of the weftern parts of 

 the county are carried to Belfaft, Lilburn, and Lur- 

 gan, the two firft in Antrim, the laft in Armagh ; and 

 our towns of Hillfborough, Banbridge, and Newry, 

 lying near thofe counties, are in part fupplied by them ; 

 fo that enquiring at the houfcs where the weavers are 

 paid, the only method of coming at the number of 

 webs, I could afcertain nothing j and what is fold in the 

 eaftern markets is often refold in the weftern. Could 

 the number of webs made in this county, in the courfe 

 of a year, have been found with any degree of accu- 

 racy, it would have given very nearly the number of 

 linen weavers ; for each kind of cloth being known, 

 and the time requiiite to weave it, the number of wea- 

 vers would follow of courfe. 



The linens being one yard wide are diftingiaflied by 

 the number of threads contained in that breadth j thus 

 an eight hundred web is one, whofe warp contains that 

 number of threads of yarn, &c. 



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