APPENDIX, N^. IV. 



COMMERC 



given birth to fonie neat villages, and enlivened the lately recommended to the attention of the public, 

 whole valley. The printfields are remarkable for in his Gleanings in Ireland, p. 40. 



the variety and elegance of their patterns. In the 

 year 1793 they employed above 3,000 men, women, 

 and children, the numbers of the fexes being nearly 

 equal: but in 1794 their number was reduced to 

 1,905. 



Dunblane, (Perth, S.) though formerly the fee 

 of a bifhop, is but a fmall village. It has fome 

 manufaftures of cotton goods and coarfe woolens. 



DuNDALK, {Lowth, I.) a town at the head of a 

 bay known by its name, has an indifferent harbour, 

 and a few veffels. The exports are corn, flour, 

 cattle, and fome linens. There are thriving manu- 

 faftures of linen of various kinds and of muflin. 



Dundee, [Forf. S.) a large, handfome, and po- 

 pulous, town, on the north fide of the Firth of 

 Tay. The harbour admits veffels of 300 tuns ; 

 and there is a confiderable quantity of (hipping em- 

 ployed in the foreign aud coafting trade, and a few 

 in the whale fifhevy. The manufaftures are ofna- 

 burg, fail-cloth, bagging, diaper, and fome other 

 linens, coloured thread, tanned leather, boots and 

 (hoes for exportation by the way of London *, 

 cordage, &c. Machinery has been ere£led for 

 fpinnir.g cotton, and the yarn is made into calicoes, 

 liandkerchefs, &c. 



DuNDoNALD, (^T, 5.) a fmall village with a 

 cotton work. 



DuNDRUM, {Down, I.) a village, fituated on a 

 fmall inlet of the fea, with fome coafting veflels. 



Dunfermline, (Fife, S.) a large and populous 

 town, with a flourifhing manufafturc af table linen 

 of excellent quality, which employs 1,200 looms, 

 and has long been the ftaple of the place. There 

 is machinery for fpinning flax, hemp, and wool. 

 The^inhabitants have the cheapeft fuel in Scotland 

 from a coal mine belonging to the corporation. 



Dun FRIES, the capital of the (liire fo called, is 

 diftinguifiitd as the handfomcft and moft populous 

 town in the fouth part of Scotland. The River 

 Nith, navigable up to the town for veflVls of 30 or 

 40 tuns, is the harbour, which is ranked as a port 

 in the cuftom-houfe eilablilhment. A few veflels 

 go to the Baltic^ but the foreign trade has fallen 

 off much Irnce the importation of tobacco, which 

 was formerly pretty confiderable, has been given 

 up. There is a pretty good falmon fifhery, but no 

 manufaftiire of any coufequence. 



(Dungannon, (Tyr. I.) a town near fome good 

 coal mines, and f'urrounded by a country wherein 

 weaving, bleaching, and farming, are carried on 

 together. 



DuNGARVAN, (JVai. /. ) a fmall town at the head 

 of a bay, which makes a good harbour, has fijme 

 veffels employed in fifliing and coafting. — South 

 from Dungarvan lies the Nymph bank, a moft ex- 

 cellent fifhing ground, which Captain Frafer has 



DuNKELD, (Ferlh, S.) an antient epifcopal city, 

 but now a fmall town, containing about 1 ,800 inhab- 

 itants. All the linen yarn, fpun in the adjacent 

 country, to the amount of about 200,000 fpindlej 

 annually, is brought to Dunkeld, where fome of it 

 is made into linf n ; but the greateft part is fent to 

 Perth, Dunfemiline, and Glafgow. A wheelwright 

 of this place has invented an improvement upon the 

 fpinning wheel, by which better yarn is made in 

 greater quantity, and with more tafe to the fpin- 

 ner. 



DuNLAViN, (IVick, I.) an inland town, with 

 manufaftures of linen and coarfe woolen goods. 



DuNLEER, i^Louth,!.) a fmall town, in the midft 

 of the brown-linen manufacture. 



DuNLOP, {-^y, "S. ) a village noted for the qnal- 

 ity of the cheefe, known by its name, made on the 

 neighbouring farms. 



DuNMANAWAY, (C(/7/§, /.) an inland town, fur- 

 rounded by manufafturers of linen. 



DuNMOw, [Effex, E.) an antient town, with a 

 fhare of the baize trade. 



Dunstable, (Bed. E.} a town, in the neigh- 

 bourhood of which the women and children are em- 

 ployed in making hats, bafliets, and many fancy 

 articles, of ftraw, which in their hands affumes a 

 vaft variety of figures and colours, and produces 

 confiderable emolument, efpecially fince the ftraw 

 hats have been in general requeft among the ladies. 



DuNSTER, [Som. £. ) a fmall maritime town, 

 with a manufadture of kerfies. 



DuNTOCHER, [Dtinb. S.) a village on the north 

 fide of the Clyde, where there are works (the firft 

 of the kind eretled in Scotland) for making woolen 

 cloth of the coarfe kind called Kendal cotton, or 

 coating. 



DuNWiCH, {Suf. E.) which appears to have 

 been the moft confiderable port on the eaft coaft 

 before the Norman conqueft, has, by fucceffive en- 

 croachments of the fea, dwindled to a fifhing vil- 

 lage. 



DuNYPACE, {Slirl S.) a village with a cotton 

 manufactory and a printfield. 



Durham, the capital of the eplfcopal county to 

 which it gives its name, is an antient city, fiipported 

 by the revenues of the church, and the expenditure 

 of travelers, it being a great thoroughfare. 



Dursley, [Gioi/c. E.) a pretty good town, 

 with a (liare of the clothing trade. 



DvsART, (Fife, S.) an antient town, with a 

 fmall tide harbour for veflels not exceeding 1 2 feet 

 of draught. There is great abundance of coal, the 

 mine of which has been on fire during three cen- 

 turies ; and coal, together with faltf , its ufual at- 

 tendant, formerly conftituted the chief trade of the 

 pl.ice. Dyfart, though a creek of Kirkcaldy in 



* In the evidence piven to the committee of the houfe of commons on the commercial intercourfe with Ireland, in the 

 vear 1781 the number of hands employed in makin? faces for London was dated to be from 800 to 1000. 

 ' t In Fife they fay, Carry full ts Dyjart, as they fay eLfewhere, Carr^ coah to Ks-jscaftli, to exprefs a needlefs addition to 

 abundajice of any thing. 



