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than the spontaneous issue of the deliberate calcula- 

 tions of capitalists, seeking for beneficial modes of 

 employing their money. 



The only kind of goods that I heard of, cal- 

 culated for distant markets, are some made of the 

 native coarse wool, dyed deep blue,, trials to introduce 

 which have been made in England. These are made 

 by some small farmers who were employed in the 

 summer on the land. They are made out of 181bs. 

 or 201bs. of wool, worth about six-pence per pound. 

 The spinning is performed by the females of the 

 family, whilst the father weaves them. It employs 

 him three days to weave a piece, which is about six- 

 teen yards in length, and 42 inches wide. The 

 value of his day's work was stated to be nine-pence, 

 thus making that part of the labour which he executed, 

 to be 2v. 3d. The fulling is performed at a public 

 mill, and the finishing and dying is executed in Ber- 

 lin, by persons who send their agents to the farm houses 

 to collect the cloths in their rough state. I was told 

 that these kind of cloths might be afforded in London, 

 at little more than 2*. per yard, and were calculated 

 for negro clothing. As the spinning is the most ma- 

 terial part of the labour, and that is performed at 

 leisure time, the maker's gain is the whole of that, as 

 the time would be otherwise unemployed. Manu- 

 factures of this kind are useful in the state of society 

 which exists where these goods are fabricated, but 

 the limits to their extension are necessarily very 

 confined. 



I have no reason to think that hitherto the low 

 price of Corn has had the effect of lowering the price 

 of manufacturing labour, in any degree approaching 

 to the depression which the products of the soil have 

 experienced. In the building of Ships, which is in- 

 deed the chief manufactory of the maritime provinces, 

 the rates of wages have very considerably fallen ; not, 

 indeed, so much as bread, but to an extent that has 



