218 Review of the Practical Tourist. 
“Taking the general average of the cost of making a yard of 
broadcloth in England, and in the United States, including that of 
the steam and water power, it appears that the American manufac- 
turer produces fabrics of equal quality, as cheaply as they are made 
in England. But widely different are their respective advantages of 
obtaining a supply of wool. The raw material is from seventy to 
an hundred per cent. dearer in New England than in Old England. 
~ In the manufacture of stuff goods the wool is prepared by first 
combing the long fibres or hairs by means of a sort of hatchel, 
precisely as flax is prepared. The operation, however, is perform- 
ed upon the wool, whilst it is-exposed to heat, which renders the 
fibres permanently elongated. The combed wool is passed suc- 
cessively between sets of rollers, to extend the fibres, and to reduce 
them to the rudiments of a fine thread, for which purpose machine- 
ry is employed similar to that used for manufacturing cotton. After 
this it is spun into worsted yarn.” 
It is gratifying to learn from Mr. Allen’s book, that small beaiies 
are formed by the proprietors at many of the large manufacturing es 
tablishments in England, for the, use of the workmen, which are 
supported by a small periodical payment from those who receive the 
books. If the comparatively small size of our own manufactoriés 
renders such an appendage less worthy of the attention of owners, 
they might at least unite in large manufacturing villages in forming 
dusile: means of mental improvement. . elle 
The for extracts are interesting to a comparatively small 
class of readers only, and present but indifferent specimens of the 
authors style. They are offered as samples of the more substantial 
sort of goods which the inquirer may find in this ware-house of im- 
formation. It would have suited the manufacturer, if this description 
of goods had been packed separately at the farther end of the 
building, in the form of an appendix, instead of being thrown about, 
prodiiscuously, among castles and abbeys, theatres and gaming houses, 
Cottages and palaces, foundling hospitals and cathedrals, baptisms and 
funerals. The general sonideli however, whose taste the author 00 
doubt consulted, would prefer the book as it is. Although — his-a 
tention was particularly directed to mills for making cotton, 
silk “and linen cloths, yet he has not omitted the aaliaane workshops 
for cutlery and other hardware, both useful and ornamental, as well 
as founderies, coal mines, porcelain works, canals, rail roads, 8c. &c.5 
thus incorporating a mass of useful facts and observations that ee 
