17096.] 
s. The hours of labour are eleven 
and a half each day, viz. from fix o’clock 
in the morning to feven o'clock at night, 
with half an hour of ‘ntermiffion at nine 
o’clock for breakfaft, and a whole hour 
at two for dinner 
6. The only rules for cleanlinefs and 
health, are fuch as enjoin the practices 
mentioned in anfwer to the third query. 
7. Seven is the hour of fupper; in 
half an hour after, at moft, and as much 
fooner as poflible, the. teaching com- 
mences, and continues till nine o'clock. 
The {chools at prefent are attended by 
five hundred and feven fcholars, in in- 
ftructing whom fixteen teachers are em- 
ployed, thirteen in teaching to read, two 
to write; and one to figure, befides a 
perfon who teaches fewing, and another 
who occafionally teaches church-mufic. 
‘The mode of teaching is as follows: The 
courfe is divided into eight clafles, ac- 
cording to the progrefs of the {cholars + 
‘to each of thefe claffes one or more teach- 
ers are affigned as the numbers in that 
ftage of advancement may require. To 
the teachers is {pecified in writing how 
far they are refpectively to carry for- 
ward their fcholars ; which fo foon as 
they have accomplifhed, the {cholars are 
transferred to the next higher clafs, and 
the teacher receives a {mall premium for 
every one fo qualified*. In their refpec- 
tive claffes, the teachers promote emula- 
tion in the ufual way, by making the 
top of the clafs the poft of honour; 
which is ftill farther kept up by the dif- 
tribution of fmall rewards every half 
year to fuch as, from an account taken 
once a fortnight, appear to have been 
moft frequently uppermoft. On Sundays, 
that part of the children, who cannot 

* The following is a ftatement of the num- 
bers in each clafs at prefent, which afford an 
accurate view of the general ftate of their edu- 
ation : 
In the rft, or latter clafs, there are 65 {cholars. - 
2d --=----+--- 2 
3d ------+--- 76 
4th -- +--+ ---+-- 6s 
eth je7/ie = ee le 44 
6th: - ee vO oO 44 
jth «a2 - ee ee - SI 
Sth seer re ee 80 
The eighth, or higheft clafs, are all good read- 
ers, and employ the half of their time each 
night in writing. Such as ftand in no farther 
need of infiructions in reading, of whom there 
are about twelve boys and twelve girls, employ 
the remainder of-their time after writing, in 
Jearning arithmetic and fewing, except on oc- 
~-caftonal nights appointed for revifing their read- 
Management of Cotton Mannfactories. 
459. 
goto church from want of accommoda- 
tion, are kept bufy at fehool; and in the 
evenings, after public worfhip, the ufual 
teachers fpend regularly three hours in 
giving religious inftruétion, by caufing 
the fcriptures to be read, catechifing, 
&c+. Befides thefe night fchools, there 
are two day fchools for children too 
young for work, which, as well as the 
night ones (excepting the providing 
their own books) are entirely free of 
expence to the fcholars. 
8. Dhe time of hiring differs with the 
different defcriptions of children. Thofe 
who agree for a ftipulated weekly wage, 
and who generally are fuch as live with 
their parents, are commonly engaged for 
four years; while fuch as are received 
from the workhoufe in Edinburgh, or 
who are otherwife without friends to 
take charge of them, and who, in lieu 
of wages, are maintained and educated, 
are bound four, five, fix, or feven years, 
according to their age, or generally till 
they have completed their fifteenth year. 
The mode of hiring is generally by con- 
traét of the parents, or curators of the 
children in their behalf. 
.-9 The fupply of workers for the 
mills comes, either from the native in- 
habitants of the place; from families 
who have been colleéted about the works 
from the neighbouring parifhes, and 
more -diftant parts of the country; or 
laftly, from Edinburgh and Glafgow, by 
the number of deftitute children thefe 
places conftantly afford. : 
10. When fever, or any other epide- 
mical diforder appears in the boarding- 
houfe, where that defcription of workers 
who do not receive their wages in money 
are accommodated, the means ufed to 
prevent the fpreading of the infeétion 
are, the immediate removal of the fick 
to a detached part of the houfe, and a 
frequent {prinkling and fumigating of 
the bed-rooms with vinegar. ‘Typhous 
fever has not appeared there for years, 
but has during that time been in the 
village, though never general; yet in 
no cafe, fofar as circumftances afforded 
the means of judging, did it appear to 
originate in the mills, oreven to be com- 
municated by the intercourfe the work- 
ers have there with each other §. 
11. The 
-+ There is accommodation at church for only 

‘one hundred and fifty children; they all: go to 
it in rotation, 
‘§ The following ftatement of the number 
of children in the boarding-houfe, at different 
periods, and the annual deaths there, beft 
evinces their genetal ftate of health. \ 
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