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(L.) The pottery ^hye, too, appears to have no little 



joJ?d"f Trade advantage in point of time, for the several spinners 

 9 June 1832. these basins had almost completed six skeins, 

 before those at the quadruple (though I could 

 observe no unnecessary delay) had completed four ; 

 yet these, I understood, were some of Mr. Becher's 

 first-rate men, and as workmen, apparently supe- 

 rior to the others. Had the spinners, indeetl, at 

 the pottery ghye been equally skilful, the produce 

 would doubtless have been greater than it was. 



The comparative loss of yhiiUun from the qua- 

 druple ghye, I apprehend to be the necessary 

 consequence of the mode of manufacturing, which 

 restricts two men, spinning at the same time, to 

 the same basin and the same reel. In order to 

 secure the greatest possible produce, (other things 

 being equal,) cocoons on being wound off require 

 for their separate stages separate degrees of tem- 

 perature, so that, as long as the cocoons of both 

 are not precisely in the same state of forwardness, 

 which must not unfrequently occur, one man will 

 be working at a disadvantage and a certain loss 

 of phullun. Moreover, when either spinner is 

 compelled to stop the reel, the other, whether 

 requiring it or not, is so far subjected to detention 

 also ; but both being anxious to prevent this delay 

 to his companion, are often so hurried in removing 

 a bad thread, that good and .bad are removed 

 together, which, though increasing the quantity 

 of chassum, must lessen that of wound silk. In 



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