196 GENERAL STATE. 



MANUFACTURES. 



Linens the great fabric of the kingdom for exportation, have 

 increaied rapidly. 



1. 1. 



The export from 17 50 to 1756, in value 



of cloth and yarn was, 904,479 



Ditto from 1757 to 1763, 1,166,136 



COMMERCE. * 



Trade in Ireland, in all its branches, has increased .greatly 

 in twenty-five years ; this has been a natural effect from the 

 other articles of prosperity already enumerated. 



I 



Thelrift exports to Great-Britain, on an average 



of twenty-five years before 1 748,' were, 438,665 

 Ditto on twenty-five years fmcc, 965,050 



Increafe, 526,385 



This greateft article of her trade has therefore more than 

 doubled. 



Export to Great-Britain per annum for the laft 



feven years, ..- "' 1,240,677 



The preceding feven years, 917,088 



