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ment. The kind of employment it may be proper to 

 give them will depend much on local circumstances. 

 It will depend on the habits of the poor, the kinds of 

 work they are acquainted with, and the facility with 

 which the articles they can manufacture may be dis- 

 posed of at a good price. 



In very extensive establishments there will be little 

 difficulty in finding useful employment for the poor; 

 for, where the number of persons to be employed is very 

 great, a great variety of different manufactures may be 

 carried on with advantage, and all the articles man- 

 ufactured, or prepared to be employed in manufactures, 

 may be turned to a good account. 



In a small establishment circumscribed and confined 

 to the limits of a single village or parish, it might per- 

 haps be difficult to find a good market for the yarn 

 spun by the poor ; but in a general establishment ex- 

 tending over a whole country or large city, as the 

 quantity of yarn spun by all the poor within the exten- 

 sive limits of the institution will be sufficient to employ 

 constantly a number of weavers of different kinds of 

 cloth and stuff, the market for all the various kinds 

 of yarn the poor may spin will always be certain. The 

 same reasoning will hold with regard to various other 

 articles used in great manufactories, upon which the 

 poor might be very usefully employed ; and hence 

 the great advantage of making establishments for giving 

 employment to the poor as extensive as possible. It is 

 what I have often insisted on, and what I cannot too 

 strongly recommend to all those who engage in forming 

 such establishments. 



Although I certainly should not propose to bring 

 together under one roof all the poor of a whole king- 



