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eame from the East Indies to London ; from 

 London it went to Manchester, where it was 

 manufactured into yarn ; from Manchester it 

 was sent to Paisley, where it was woven ; it 

 was then sent to Ayrshire, where it was tam- 

 boured ; it came back to Paisley, and was 

 there veined; afterwards it was sent to Dum- 

 barton, where it was hand-sewed, and again 

 brought to Paisley ; whence it was sent to 

 Renfrew to be bleached, and was returned to 

 Paisley ; whence it went to Glasgow and was 

 finished; and from Glasgow was sent per 

 coach to London. The time occupied in 

 bringing this article to market was three 

 years, from its being packed in India till it ar- 

 rived in cloth at the merchant's warehouse in 

 London : it must have been conveyed 5000 

 miles by sea, and about 920 by land; and con- 

 tributed to support not less than 150 people, 

 by which the value had been increased 2000 

 per cent."* 



So wide and so beneficially is the influence 

 of the cotton-trade spread, that, to the know- 

 ledge of the author of this work, one indivi- 

 dual in the metropolis pays annually from 

 ten to twelve thousand pounds for the article 



* Monthly Magazine. 



