DICKSON ON THE 



order that persons, unacquainted with the first cost of the 

 article, may form a correct idea of the value hereafter, I shall 

 give the expense attending the manufacture of a few sets in the 

 brown state. The prices now, in 1858, I understand are 

 down 3d. per yard, and therefore linen is now very near as 

 cheap as cotton, although a linen shirt will outwear two cotton 

 shirts. 



CALCULATION OF YARNS REQUIRED TO MAKE A STRONG 

 LINEN WEB FIFTY-TWO YARDS LONG. 



As the above only shews the numbers required to make three 

 sets, or descriptions of 4-4ths shirtings, I shall now add the 

 scale, by which all kinds, from 9 to 28, can be made. 



