.i$6 WEAVERS, 



exhalation of this oil, and confequent weak'nefs. But though 

 it is neceflufy for colour to exhale a portion of the oil, flm: 

 that never had but little from the poverty of the foil it grew 

 in, is of little worth, and will not bear the opera'acu o; 

 bleaching like the other. Potatoes kept very clean under the 

 plough are an excellent preparation for fi.ix ; and turnep. r , 

 well hoed, the fame. 



The following are the EARNINGS of the MANUFACTU- 

 "RERS in LINEN FABRICS. 



Weavers. 



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\FineUnen.\Courfi //'. Spin. 



Thefe earnings are from double to near treble thofe of huf- 

 bandry labour throughout the kingdom, and yet Complaints 

 of poverty are infinitely more common among thefe people 

 than in thofe parts of the kingdom that have no fhare of the 

 manufacture. It is fo in all countries ; and ought to prevent 

 too alHduous an attention to fuch complaints. Thofe who for 

 the fake of great earnings will become weavers, muft do it 

 under the knowledge that they embrace or continue in a lire 

 not of the fame regular tenour with the loweft fpecies of la- 

 bourers. If they will not be more prudent and faving, they 

 ought not to clamour r.nd expect the public to turn things 

 topfy turvy to fed them, who, with any degree of attention, 



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