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the time they should continue, and the hours 
they should labour; and instead of receiving a 
premium for teaching them, Mr. Armitage agreed 
to pay them for every ounce of cotton they should 
spin. 
In every undertaking of this kind, the greatest 
embarrassments attend its outset, and the same 
difficulties that had suspended the instruction of 
the two former parties, were again to be overcome. 
The indolent habits of these young persons, their 
impatience of control, and the fugitive mode of 
life to which many had been accustomed, were 
not to be at once removed. Recent accounts, 
however, convey the intelligence, that the pros¬ 
pect of ultimately introducing this branch of labour 
extensively among the people, is more encourag¬ 
ing than formerly. The females were able to 
spin strong and regular thread, or yarn; one or 
two of the boys had been taught to make, all 
things considered, very good cloth. Mr. Armitage 
has also succeeded in dying the cloth, and thus 
furnishing different patterns and colours, which 
has greatly increased its value in their estimation. 
While the hands of the parties spinning or weaving 
are employed, the improvement of their minds is 
not neglected. Reading-lessons and passages of 
scripture are affixed to the walls and different 
parts of the factory. 
The carding engine, and some of the other parts 
of the machinery, were turned by a large water¬ 
wheel, but the work has often been retarded by 
the repairs that the wheel or its appendages have 
required. 
Several of the best native carpenters have, how¬ 
ever, readily come forward to repair the wheel, and 
have received their payment in cloth made at the 
