394 G A L W A Y. 



crops. The poor people near Gal way are ve- 

 ry indufirious in buying the fullage of the 

 ftreets of that town - t they give 3d. for a horfe 

 load of two bafkets, and carry it three miles. 



One circumitance, relative to the progrefs of 

 the linen manufacture in this country, the 

 town of Galway can inftance. Mr. Andrew 

 French of that place, fixteen years ago, im- 

 ported the firft cargo of flax feed of 300 

 hogflieads, and could only fell 100 of them, 

 whereas now the annual importation rifes from 

 3,500 to 2,300. Twenty years ago there were 

 only 20 looms in Galway, now there are 1 80. 

 They make coaife fheetings feven-eighths 

 wide, at o^d. to 1 id. a yard; dowlas, 28 in- 

 ches wide, at yd. Ofnaburgs at yd. al fo. 

 There are eight or nine bleach greens in the 

 county, but they bleach, generally fpeaking, 

 only for the country confumption : the great 

 bulk of the linens are fent green to Dublin. 

 In the town and neighbourhood of Loch-rea, 

 there are 300 looms employed on linens that 

 are called Lochreas, of 28 inches in width, 

 which fell at yd. a yard. All the flax worked 

 in the county is, generally fpeaking, railed in 

 it. The yarn fpun is pound yarn, not done 

 into hanks at all. Very many weavers are in 

 the towns, without having any land more than 

 a cabbage garden. The linen and yarn of the 

 whole county has been calculated at 40,00.0!. 

 a year. 



September 



