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completed fcale ; a factory of eleven looms for 

 damafk, bleacher's houfe and other buildings, 

 with a refervoir of water for turning the wheel ; 

 the whole well-built, well-contrived, and at the 

 expence of 1200!. Kept thefe looms conftant- 

 ly at work, and at the fame time bleached 

 many-pieces for the country people. Trulted 

 to a manager for the conduct of the works, 

 who broke, which put a flop to them, other- 

 wife there would have been a flourishing ma- 

 nufactory eftablifhed. Spinning flax coming 

 in, but the woollen through the country j and 

 from hence to the north-weft Duhallow Barony 

 is the great country for fpinning cotton. 



September i th, to Blarney Cattle, S. J, Jef- 

 ferys, Efq; of whofe great works in building a 

 town at Blarney, I cannot give fo particular an 

 account as I wifb to do ; for I got there juft as 

 he and his family were on the point of fetting 

 out for France. I did not however let (lip the 

 time I had for making fome enquiries, and found 

 that in 1765, when Mr. Jefferys began to build 

 this town, it confifted only of two or three mud 

 cabins ; there are now 90 houfes* He firft ef- 

 tablifhed the linen manufactory, building a 

 bleach-mill, and houfes for weavers, &c. and 

 letting them to manufacturers from Corke, 

 who have been fo fuccefsful in their works, as 

 to find it necefTary to have larger and more nu- 

 merous edifices, llich as a large (tamping mill 

 for printing linens v and cottons, to which is 

 annexed another bleach-mill, and fince there 

 has been a third erected j the work carried on 

 is that of buying yarn> and weaving it into li- 

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