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arc immediately fent to the London and the York- 

 fhire markets, where they are purchafed by perfons 

 who drefs and dye them, and prepare them either 

 for the fupply of their retail cuflomers, or for ex- 

 portation to foreign markets. The fpinning and 

 reeling are chiefly performed by the females, and 

 boys from lo to 14 years of age. The price allow- 

 ed, is from 10 d. to i s. 6 d. per pound. A tole- 

 rable fpinner, who is induftrious, earns, upon an 

 average, 6 d. per day. Sorters are paid at the rate of 

 6d. per tod of 28 lb.; combers receive 2s. for every 

 13 lb. of wool. A good hand will make 9 s. or 10 s. 

 per week. A weaver from 5 s. 6d. to 6 s. 6 d. per 

 piece for tammys, confifting of 32 yards in length, 

 by 22 inches in breadth ; and for everlaftings, from 

 5 s. to 17 s. per piece of the fame fize, according 

 to the finenefs; and a good weaver will earn is. 6d. 

 per day. 



STATE OF PROPERTY. 



There are many very confiderable eftates in this 

 diftridl, and by far the greateft part oF the landed 

 property is in the pofleffion of noblemen and gen- 

 tlemen, who refide at leafl fome part of the year in 

 the county. 



There are few eftates, the rentals of which ^'s.- 

 cteA lu. 10,000 per annum ; there are a great many 

 others under that fum, down to L. 1000 a-year, 

 and the remainder of the property is either polfef- 

 fed by thofe whofe rentals amount to from L. 500 

 to L. 800, or by that refpedable clafs of men who 

 have been long known in England under the de- 

 nomination of Teomanry, who either occupy their 

 own eftates, of the value of from L. loo to L. 300, 



or 



