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to the earth at the impression hereof: the 

 success we leave to the Lord. Notwith- 

 standing, my selfe, three yeares past, did 

 sowe of the seedes, which did grow very 

 frankly, but perished before it came to per- 

 fection, by reason of the colde frostes that 

 overtooke it in the time of flo wring." 



The cotton manufactory alone has raised 

 Manchester from an humble town to a place 

 of the first importance. It has for near 

 two centuries been increasing in size and 

 in trade; and the perfection to which ovir 

 machinery and the industry of the people 

 have arrived, within these last fifty years, 

 has multiplied the inhabitants, and increased 

 the trade from the supply of its neighbour- 

 hood with a few domestic articles, to fur- 

 nishing the most distant countries, as well as 

 the most sumptuous courts, with its useful 

 and elegant productions. 



Calico, or cotton cloth, is now generally 

 become a substitute for linen cloth through- 

 out the kingdom, not only for the finer parts 

 of female dress, but even for domestic pur- 

 poses, where strength and durability are re- 

 quired. Calico is so called from Callicut, 

 a city on the coast of Malabar, being the 



