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of making he lofes by the yarn. Manufacturers, who 

 keep a number of looms, and acquire a quantity of 

 yarn before hand, are often great fufferers, and as 

 often gainers, by the fluctuation of the markets. Spin- 

 ners can earn from three pence to four pence per day, 

 according to the price of flax and yarn ; when they 

 fpin for others they are paid fo much per hank, ac- 

 cording to the finenefs of the thread ; in this cafe their 

 gains are not fo much, as when they lay in the flax 

 themfelves. Cambric is manufactured from the coarfeft 

 to the finefl kinds ; Tome of the latter have been fold 

 fo high as fifteen guineas the piece of twenty-five yards 

 green. The profit upon thefe muft be very high, as 

 the fabric, from its delicate texture, is liable in a great 

 degree of damage : to the fpinner and weaver of thefe 

 fine cambrics there are alfo better wages ; of the lower 

 priced, the earnings to the weaver are nearly the fame 

 as from the weaving of linen. 



Near Belfaft there is, I underftand, a manufactory 

 of checquer, but to what extent I have not heard. 



The damaflc manufactory at Li/burn, being on the 

 verge of this county, muft not be pafled by unnoticed : 

 it was eftabliihed by Mr. Coulfon, and brought by him 

 to fuch perfection, that mod families of any confe- 

 quence in the United kingdoms have been furnifhed 

 with table linen from it. The beauty of the patterns, 

 and excellence of the fabric, are too well known to re- 

 quire any further mention, than its being carried on by 



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