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raife oatmeal enough to feed themfelves ; all 

 go to market for fome, The weavers earn by 

 coarfe linens is. a day, by fine is. 4d. and it is 

 the fame with the fpinners, the finer the yarn 

 the more they earn ; but in common a wo- 

 man earns about 3d. For coarfe linens they 

 do not reckon the flax hurt by Handing for 

 feed. Their own flax is much better than the 

 imported. 



This being market day at Lurgan, Mr. 

 Brownlow walked to it with me, that I might 

 fee the way in which the linens were fold. 

 The cambricks are fold early, and through the 

 whole morning; but when the clock ftrikes 

 eleven, the drapers jump upon {tone {land- 

 ings, and the weavers inftantly flock about 

 them with their pieces : the bargains are not 

 ftruck at a word, but there is a little altercati- 

 on whether the price fhall be one-halfpenny or 

 a penny a yard, more or lefs, which appeared 

 to me ufelefs. The drapers clerk flands by 

 him, and writes his matter's name on the pieces 

 he buys, with the price; and giving it back 

 to the feller, he goes to the draper's quarters, 

 and waits his coming. At twelve it ends 5 then 

 there is an hour for meafbring the pieces, and 

 paying the money, for nothing but ready mo- 

 ney is taken; and this is the way the bufinefs 

 is carried on at all the markets. Three thou- 

 fand pieces a week are fold here, at 35s. each 

 on an average, or 5,250!. and per annum 

 273,0001. and this is all made in a circumfer- 

 ance of not manv miles. 



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