496 
ares at prefent is at leaft 3,500,000l. and 
the number of perfons employed 60,000. 
The STEEL, PLratTine, and Harp- 
WARE manufactures, including the toy- 
trade, have been carried to a great ex- 
tent of late years, and may amount in 
value to 4,000,000]. and the perions em- 
ployed to at leaft 70,C00. 
It muft be confeffed, that many of 
thefe eftimates are unavoidably defective, 
from the want of public documents re- 
fpe@ting many important branches of 
trade; they may, however, be fufficient- 
Ty accurate to fhew, in a general view, 
the relative extent of our principal ma- 
nufactures, viz. 
Annual Value. Perfons em- 
ployed. 
Woollen - £.45,500,000 425,043 
Leather - = 40,500,000 241,818 
€otton - - 9,§CO,CCO 322,140 
Silk w= = =) » 2,790,000.’ 60,060 
‘Einen and Flax 2,000,0c0 ~ 60,00 
Hemp -- - - 1,500,000 35,000 
Paper - - - 900,000 30,0Cc0 
Glafs. -. = = _4,500,000).« 36,060 
Potteries -. - 2,000,0C00 45,000 
tron, Tin & Lead 10,c0e,000 200,000 
Copper & Brafs 3,500,000 60,0c0 
Stec!, Plating, &c. 4,000,000 70,000 
——— 
£,- 63,600,000 1,585,c00 







There are many other manufaCures, 
fuch as thofe of hats, horn, &raw, &c. 
which, though in themfelves of lefs im- 
portance than moft of thofe before enu- 
merated, are together of very confider- 
able amount, and employ a great num- 
ber of hands. ‘There are likewile fome 
which, though not generally included 
among the manufaéures, are certainly 
fuch in a great degree. and might, with 
much propriety, be cleffed with them. 
it may be proper to obferve, that thofe 
who have rated the number of perfons 
employed in the different branches very 
coniiderabiy higher than is here iftated, 
have generally included a variety of col- 
lateral employments, as mariners, car- 
riers, miners, &c, whereas the numbers 
here given are meant to include only the 
perions dire€tly employed in the various 
tranfactions and cperations neceflary for 
bringing the raw materials into their fi- 
nifhed confumable ftate. 
PEG 
13th Dee. 180. 
To the Editor of the LiZonthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
7 GUR correfpondent, Mr. Carey, has 
miftaken my meaning in what I 
furd concerning certain nick-nack verfes. 
1 had no intention of addrefling the 

Mr. Dyer on Greek Pronunctiatioite 
[Jan. ty 
Monthly Magazine farther on that fub- 
je: and to that purport I expreffed 
myfelf ; fuch, at leaft, was my meaning. 
I take up my pen, juft to notice what 
appears to me a conclufion too haftily 
drawn, from the verfes that may be read 
in inverfe order, as quoted by Mr. Ca- 
rey, from the Anthologia; from the ex- 
ample of the writer of thofe verfes, Mr. 
C. “ prefumes, that the Greeks, at leaft 
the Greeks of Ais.time, were accuftomed, 
in their pronunciation, fo to incorporate 
the article with the noun to which it 
belonged (when no other word inter- 
vened,) as to form of the two a fingle 
word—and in the fame manner, under 
the fame circumftances, to incorporate 
into a fingle word the prepofition and the 
noun which it governed.” 
That there is a tendency, as it were, 
in the article, and in the prepofition, to 
unite with the fubftantive, I fhall not de- 
ny: but I fee no reafon for believing that 
they were a&iually fo united in the Greek 
language; and Mr. Carey has, I think, 
been led into his inference by miftaking 
the fhift of the verififier for a rule of pro- 
nunciation. . 
It of neceflity follows, in this kind of 
verfes, that the author is fometimes 
brought into a difficulty. Thus, in the 
firft of the three epigrams produced by 
Mr. Carey, the antepenultima of 4y9Kev 
is both long and fhort, and, what is 
ftranger ftill, in the fame word. 
In the firt epigram, <x TaAau.wy, and 
in the fecond, ev euguyoow, might with 
fome plaufibility be quoted for Mr. Carey’s 
purpofe. But in that very epigram, where 
we have €v e0¢07~9¢w backwards and for- 
wards, ud may be put after Gagiv, and 
ex after Yeicwy. So may @yT’ in the 
laft epigram. 
I think then, I perceive in thefe lines 
nothing that leads to any certain conclu- 
fion relative to a law of pronunciation, 
but only a hint to makers of nick-nack 
verfes, that when they get into a hobble, 
as they fometimes will, they muit get out 
of it as well as they can. 
The fubje&t of Greek accentuation, al- 
Iuded to by Mr. Carey, I leave untouched, 
as I cannot think it connected with this 
kind of epigrams. Nor do | know how 
far the fubject of Mr. Carey’s letter 
throws light on a work he has lately pub- 
lithed, entitled Latin Profody made Eafy, 
for I have not yet had the pleafure of per- 
ufing it; though from fome fpecimens of 
Mr. Carey’s accuracy and {kill in the La- 
tin profody, that have fallen in my way, 
I doubt not it is a very ufeful publication. 
I remain, Yours, &c G. Dyer. 
