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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817 edition. Excerpt: ... COTTON. The introduction of this manufactory is of much later date. Two machines upon the Arkwright plan add to the modern commerce; and several looms have lately been constructed for the fabrication of calicoes.--Another machine, still later, appeared, to convert wool into a thread for weaving carpets. From the above state of trade in Derby, it appears that she crept silently through ages without much connexion with Commerce, except what arose from her own taylors, ha...
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.