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plied, in the same ratio, are the markets increased. 

 And there is a peculiar advantage in markets of this 

 kind, at a distance from navigable waters ; that, the 

 consumption being at liome, the expense of carriage 

 is saved. But there is a kind of manufacture, do- 

 mestic in the strictest sensBf the benefit of which is 

 inestimable; because while it adds to the stock oi the 

 family, it protects their morals-^1 allude to spinning, 

 weaving, and such things as are done by the hands 

 of the husband, the wife, or the children, without 

 leaving their home. It guards them against idle- 

 nesSf that child of folly, and parent of vice, and is 

 often clear gain, as it occupies those hours which 

 would have been passed in inacLion. I am afraid, 

 that in this kind of industry, we have rather degen- 

 erated. A very respectable gentleman, a member of 

 the Society of Friends, informed me, that about the 

 year 1764, he attended a meeting in Chester county, 

 near the borders of Maryland, and that most of his 

 society in that neighbourhood, were cloathed com- 

 pletely and handsomely in dress of their own manu- 

 facture. Were he to visit that meeting now I doubt 

 whether he would see his friends in the same kind of 

 apparel. Yet meritorious examples are not wanting, 

 even now, and 1 hope I shall be excused for men- 

 tioning one lately communicated to me. In the west- 



