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from which well wafhed, wrung, and made 

 ready for ftarch and blue •, then dried and 

 beetled, which is done by a mill, after which 

 done up with a fere wing machine for fale. 

 The expenfe of bleaching 3s. a piece, for 

 coarfe 4s. middling 5s. fine 6s. Thefe the 

 particulars commonly known among bleachers ; 

 there are fecrets in the trade which they of 

 courfe do not communicate, but not fo many 

 I apprehend as generally fuppofed; for where 

 there are few, or even none, but with an ap- 

 pearance of them, all is fuppofed by the vul- 

 gar to be myftery. Upon the above account 

 1 have only to remark, that the rubbing ap- 

 pears to me an operation for giving the cloth 

 beauty at the expenfe of ftrength. It is a 

 moft fevere operation, being drawn between 

 boards full of teeth, which are made for the 

 profeiTed purpofe of adding to the fridion ; 

 and the effect is fuch, that large quantities of 

 knap are conftantly taken out of the machine. 

 This is a very fine invention for wearing out 

 a manufacture as foon as made. 



Mr. Clibborn was ready enough to confefs 

 that this work is carried too far, but the Lon- 

 don drapers, he fays, demand thick cloths, 

 and this operation contracting the breadth of 

 the piece gives it a thick appearance, which 

 they are fond of. The beetling does not ap- 

 pear to me to be near fo fevere an operation. 

 It is a continued fylTem of perpendicular 

 ftrokes upon the cloth wound round a cylinder, 

 for the purpofe of fmoothing it, and giving it 



a elofs. 



