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All have conftant employment. During 

 the war this manufacture was more brifk 

 than ever, very dull after the peace, and has 

 continued but indifferent ever fmce. 



Their third branch of manufacture is the 

 linfey woolfey, made chiefly for home con- 

 fumption, of Weftmoreland, Lancajlnre, and 

 Cumberland wool ; the hands are chiefly 

 weavers and fpinners. The firft earn 9 s. 

 or 10 s. a week; the fecond (women) 4J. 

 6d. or 5 s. 



The farmers and labourers fpin their own 

 wool, and bring the yarn to market every 

 week : There are about five hundred wea- 

 vers employed, and from a thoufand to thir- 

 teen hundred fpinners in town and country. 

 The bufinefs during the war was better than 

 it has been fince, but is now better than 

 after the peace. 



Their fourth manufacture is the tannery, 

 which employs near a hundred hands, who 

 earn from ys. to 7 s. 6 d. a week. They 

 tan many hides from Ireland. 



They have likewife a fmall manufactory 

 of cards, for carding cloth. Another alfo 

 of filk : They receive the wade filk from 

 London, boil it in foap, which they call 

 fcowering, then it \§ combed by women 

 (there- are about thirty or forty of them,) 

 and fpun, which article employs about an 

 hundred hands ; after this it is doubled and 



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