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mous for feveral manufactories ; the chief 

 of which is that of knit (lockings, employing 

 near five thoufand hands by computation. 

 They reckon one hundred and twenty wool- 

 combers, each employing five fpinners, and 

 each fpinner four or five knitters j if four, 

 the amount is two thoufand four hundred ; 

 this is the full work, fuppoiing them all to 

 be induftrious; but the number is probably 

 much greater. They make five hundred and 

 fifty dozen a week the year round, or twenty- 

 eight thoufand fix hundred dozen annually: 

 The price per pair is from 22 d. to 6 s. but 

 in general from 22^/. to 4J. fome boys at 

 10*/. If we fuppofe the average 3^. or 361. 

 a dozen, the amount is 51,480/. 



The wool they ufe is chiefly Leicejlerf&re, 

 WarwickJIrire, and Durham : They gene- 

 water. The upper end of it is fine, quite in- 

 clofed with bold fteep craggy rocks and moun- 

 tains •, and in the center of the end a few little in- 

 clofures at their feet, waving upwards in a very 

 beautiful manner. The ibnth fide is a noble 

 ridge of mountain, very bold and prominent 

 down to the waters edge. They bulge out in 

 the center in a pendent broad head that is vene- 

 rably magnificent: And the view of the firft 

 meet of the lake lofing itfelf into the fecond 

 among hills, rocks, woods, &c. pifturefque. 

 The oppofite more confifls of inclofures, rifing 

 one above another, and crowned with craggy 

 rocks, 



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