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for the Levant trade. Frizes which is now 

 fupplied from Carcaftbne in Languedoc. 

 Frizes of 24 to 27 inches, at lod. to i3d. a 

 yard. Flannels, 27 to 36, from 7d. to i4d. 

 Serges of 27 to 36 inches, at 7d. to i2d. a 

 yard ; thefe would work up the coarfe wool. 

 At Bally nafloe fair, in July, 200,000!. a year 

 bought in wool. There is a manufa6lory of 

 knit-flocking by the common women about 

 Corke, for eight or ten miles around $ the yarn 

 from i2d.to iSd.a pair, and the worfted, from 

 i6d. to 2od. and earn from I2d. to i8d. a 

 week. Befides their own confumption, great 

 quantities are fent to the north of Ireland. 



All the weavers in the country are con- 

 fined to towns, have no land, but fmall gar- 

 dens. Bandle or narrow linen, for home 

 confumption, is made in the weftern part of 

 the county. Generally fpeaking, the circum^ 

 ftances of all the manufacturing poor are bet- 

 ter than they were twenty years ago. The 

 manufactures have not declined, though the 

 exportation has, owing to the increafed home 

 confumptions. Bandon was once the feat of 

 the ftufF, camblet, and fhag manufacture, 

 but has in feven years declined above three- 

 fourths. Have changed it for the manufac- 

 ture of coarfe green linens, for the London 

 market, from 6d. to pd. a yard, 27 inches 

 wide ; but the number of manufacturers in 

 general much leflened. 



September. 



