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Sect. XV.] 



STATISTICS. 



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out-of-door labour was prevented by bad weather. Hand- 

 loom w^eavmg, except as the substantive occupation of the 

 familv, may now be said to have ceased in tliis country, 

 and the spinning-wheel has long been wholly superseded ; 

 but this is far from being the case in many, or perhaps in 

 most, other countries, where the females of a faoiily are 

 at timus employed in spinning and weaving, at least for 

 the supply of their own household, if they do not provide 

 a further quantity of fabrics for sale to others. 



Where manufactures are carried on in fectories or large 

 establishments, it will not be vei v difficult to obtain a 

 tolerably accurate estimate of the number of such esta- 

 blishments, and of the hands employed in them. In some 

 countries, the government requires that a patent or licence 



shall be taken out yearly by the proprietors of manufac- 

 tories, and by this means a correct account of their num- 

 ber might be obtained. In the same w^ay, the number 

 of dealers may sometimes be ascertained, and probably 



classified as being wholesale or retail traders, as w^ell as 

 distinguished according to the branches of business pur- 

 sued by them. 



It is desirable to know^ the usual and avera^ze 



size of 



farms or holdings of land, and the system under which 

 they are cultivated, whether by the proprietor of the soil 

 or by tenants ; and if by the latter, then upon vrhat terms, 

 whether by payment of an annual rent, and 



at wnat 



rate usually for a given measure ; or by a division of the 

 gross produce, and then in what proportion the landlord 

 participates for the mere use of the hnd and farm- 

 buildings, or whether he furnishes tlie stock or any pro- 

 portion of it. Inquiry should be made as to the existence 



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