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If let to a man who fhould farm flax, the la- 

 bour would be much higher, as it is here reck- 

 oned only at the earning, which they could 

 make by the manufacture, and not the rate at 

 whichthey work for others. Kackling is is. id k 

 a ftone. 



We next come to the manufacture. The 

 ftone-rough after hackling will produce 81b. 

 flax for coarfe linen, and $i lb. of tow. The 

 81b. will fpin into 20 dozen of yarn, or 20 

 hanks or 5 fpangles fit for a ten hundred cloth, 

 which is the common fort here - 9 and the earn- 

 ings in fpinning will be from 5s. to 6s. 8d. the 

 5 fpangles, and it is very good work to do that 

 in 20 days by one woman ; in common 25 

 days, consequently they earn fomething better 

 than 3d. a day. Seven and a half fpangles 

 will weave into a piece of linen (ten hundred 

 fort) of 25 yards long, and yard wide. Thus 

 one ftone and a half of flax at 7s. a flone, 

 market-price, will make that piece. But the 

 tow remains 44 lb. which is 2s. 2d. of which 

 they make a coarfer linen. 30 flone, the pro- 

 duce of an acre, make therefore 20 fuch pieces. 

 The price of this cloth is from ten-pence half- 

 penny to eleven-pence halfpenny a yard 

 brown, the flate in which they fell it. Aver- 

 age eleven-pence. The fixed price for weav- 

 ing it is two-pence halfpenny a yard. But 

 this is when the poor are not able to raife it, 

 and work for hire for thofe who advance them 

 the yarn. A great deal is done in this man- 

 ner, as well as by thofe who raife the flax, 



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