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there; his fruit-baflcets, in lightnefs and fancy, arc 

 equal to thofe imported from France. In the neigh- 

 bourhood of Comber, in the barony of Caftlereagh, 

 there is an ingenious maker of winnowing machines, 

 both for barns, and for mills , thefe machines he makes 

 on the mod approved conftruclion, with either fingle 

 or double blafts, as it fuits the wifti or the purfe of the 

 buyer. The manufacturing of tobacco is confined to 

 thofe towns, which either are the refidence, or give the 

 name to a collector's diftrict ; in thofe places it is both 

 fpun and made into fnuif. Of the former kind an af- 

 tonifhing quantity is ufed in this county, as few perfons 

 deprive themfelves of the luxury either of chewing or 

 of fmoaking that fafcinating weed; taking of fnuff is 

 not by any means fo general as the firfl and fecond 

 modes of ufmg it; and although we have fome tole- 

 rable imitations of Foot t there are none fo nearly ap- 

 proaching it, that to a difcriminating nofe could not 

 be perceived at the diftance of a yard. A confiderable 

 quantity of kelp is made every fummer along the coafls, 

 but particularly on the lough of Strangford; the whole 

 quantity manufactured there, as I am informed by a 

 gentleman, from whom I have received a mcft accu- 

 rate account of the manner of preparing it from fea- 

 weed, amounts to between four and five hundred tons, 

 whilit that made on the eaftern coafl does not amount 

 to more than one hundred tons per annum; that on the 

 fhores of the lake is much fuperior in quality to that on 



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