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Until many thoufand wheels and powers 

 are fet at work from the original fimple 

 one. They ufe Bengal, China, Turkey, 

 Piedmont, and American raw filk ; the Ita- 

 lian cofts them 35 s. a pound, but the Ame- 

 rican only 20 s. it is a good filk, though 

 not equal to the Piedmont. This mill works 

 up 150 lb. of raw filk a week all the year 

 round, or 7800 per annum. The erection, 

 of the whole building, with all the mecha- 

 nifm it contains, colt about 7 coo /. 



I would advife you, in cafe you take this 

 place in your way to the more northerly 

 parts, to view all the mills in town : among 

 others, do not forget the tilting-mill, which 

 is a blackfmith's immenfe hammer in con- 

 ftant motion on an anvil, worked by wa- 

 ter-wheels, and by the fame power the 

 bellows of a forge adjoining kept regularly 

 blown : The force of this mcchanifm is 

 prodigious ; fo great, that you cannot lay 

 your hand upon a gate at three perches 

 diftance, without feeling a ftrong trembling 

 motion, which is communicated to all the 

 earth around. 



Upon the whole, the manufacturers of 

 Sheffield make immenfe earnings : There 

 are men who are employed in more labo- 

 rious works, that do not earn above 6 or 

 7 s. a week, but their number is very fmall ; 

 in general they get from 91. to 20 s. a 

 week; and the women and children are 



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