chap, iv.] WEST INDIES. 
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Machinery established in Great Britain, 1787, for 
the Cotton Manufactory . 
143 Water-mills, which cost... <£.715,000 
20,500 Hand-mills, or jennies, for 
spinning the shute, for the twist¬ 
ed'yarn spun by the water-mills, 
(including buildings and auxiliary 
machinery) .. 285,000 
Total ..... <£.1,000,000 
The water-mills work 286,000 spindles, and the 
jennies 1,665,100—Total of spindles, 1,951,100. 
—And it has been asserted, that a pound of raw 
cotton-wool from Demerara, has been spun into 
356 hanks, each hank being 840yards; so that the 
thread would have extended 169 miles. 
On the whole it is computed that not less than 
three hundred and fifty thousand people in Great 
Britain find full employment in the cotton manufac¬ 
tory. In point of importance, therefore, even the 
produce and manufacture of the great staple commo¬ 
dity of this kingdom, wool, does not exceed it in a 
twofold proportion. According to the information 
of a very able and diligent inquirer, there are from 
ten to twelve millions of sheep in England. The 
value of their wool may, one year with another, 
amount to <£.3,000,000; the expense of manufac¬ 
turing this is probably <£.9,000,000, and the total 
value <£. 12,000,000. 
