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facture and its ultimate value will be best ascertained by the Tabular Statement
which is immediately subjoined:
	The Quantity	The Value
	of Yards.	Sterling.
There were made for sale, according to a 5 years average,} ending the 1st November, 1735,                                   	4,554,128	�171.887
According to a 5 years average, ending 1st November, 1740,	4,667,424	184,334
The same, ending 1st November, 1745,      -	5,073,721	209,778
The same, ending 1st November, 1750,	8,886,809	292,277
The same, ending 1st November, 1755,      -	8,621,150	394,542
The same, ending 1st November, 1760,       ...	10,302,886	433,644
The same, ending 1st November, 1765,      -	12,253,635	539,183
The same, ending 1st November, 1770,	12,855,339	639,013
The same, ending 1st November, 1775,      -	12,172,037	543,298
The same, ending 1st November, 1780,      -	13,581,684	622,972
The same, ending 1st November, 1785.      -	16,802,997	829,643
The same, ending 1st November, 1790,      -	19,104,206	864,883
The same, ending 1st November, 1795,      -	20,478,312	795,969
The same, ending 1st November, 1800,      -	22,528,498	931,490
In the year 1801, -----.	25,271,155	1,018,642
Such, then, were the origin, the progress, and the greatest amount of a
manufacture, which added to the opulence of the country a million a year.
Yet this manufacture has been vastly surpassed by a rival, the cotton, which
has arisen during late times, and has been called the staple of Scotland though
the rude material of it be brought from afar (f). It is supposed that there are
invested in this staple, for buildings and machinery, half a million of capital;
and the annual produce of it is worth, to the many persons who are interested
in this rich manufacture, upwards of three millions Sterling a year. Connected
with the cotton manufactures is the printing of such goods, which, in calicoes
and muslins, have been yearly carried much beyond four millions of yards.
There has been introduced into this country a silk manufacture to a great
length of ingenuity and value. Scotland has also woollen manufactories, which,
according to ancient practice, work up many of the fleeces of her flocks for
domestic uses. To all those must be added, amidst many smaller manufac-
(j) Of cotton wool there were imported into Scotland, during 1755, 105,831 Ibs., which evince the
infancy of this manufacture; and during 1800, 13,204,225 Ibs., that prove its youth.