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 carried on a vafl manufacturing trade: 

 Leeds cloth market is well known, and has 

 been often defcribed. They make chiefly 

 broad cloths from I s. 8 d. a yard to 12 s. 

 but moftly of 4 s. 6 d. and 5 s. Good 

 hands at this branch, would earn about 

 ioj. 6 d. a week the year round, if they 

 were fully employed ; but as it is, cannot 

 make above 8 s. This difference of 2 s. 

 6 d. is a melancholy confidcration. A boy 

 of 13 or 14, about 4 s. a week, fome wo- 

 men earn by weaving as much as the men. 

 The men, at what they call offal work, 

 which is the inferior branches, fuch as 

 picking, rinting, &c. are paid 1 d. an hour. 



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difpleafes at the very firft fight. The fhrub- 

 bery, or rather plantation, is fpread over two fine 

 Hopes, the valley between which is along winding 

 hollow dale, exquifitely beautiful; the banks are 

 thickly covered with great numbers of very fine 

 oaks, whofe noble branches in fome places al- 

 mofl join over the grafs lawn which winds be- 

 neath them ; at the upper end is a Gothic temple, 

 over a little grot, which forms an arch, and to- 

 gether have a moil pleaiing effect; on a near 

 view, this temple is found a light and airy 

 building. Behind it is a water fweetly fitua ted, 

 furrounded by hanging wood in a beautiful man- 

 ner, an ifland in it prettily planted; and the 

 bank on the left fide rifmg from the water, and 

 fcattered with fine oaks. From the feat of the 

 river God ; (the ftream by the by is too fmall 



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