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CF WESTMORELAND- 299

Stephen, on the Monday before the 20th March, Octo=- ber 2d, 27th, and 29th,—at Millthrope on 12th May,— at Shap, on the 4th May,—at Orton, on the 2d May, the Friday before Whitſunday, and ſecond Friday after Mi chaelmas,—and at Old Town, on the gh and 6th Octas ber.

SEcT. 4.— Weekly Markets.

here are weekly markets at eight different towns in Weſtmoreland 5; but the only one of any note, is held at Kendall. The next in point of conſeguence 1s held at A ppleby, the county towns

SECT. 5.—Comnierce.

The commerce of Weſtmoreland is not yet ſo exten=- ſve as to have any ſenfible eÆ upon its agriculture: Its exports are coarſe woollen cloth, manufaCured at Kendall, ſtockings, ſlates, tanned hides, gunpowder, hoopss charcoal, hams, wool, ſheep, and cattle. Its imports are chiefly merchant goods, wheat, oats, with a little barley, cattle and ſheep.

Millthrope is a yery trifling port, and the only one in the county.

SECT. 6.— Manufauress

The manufa@ures of Weſtmoreland are not of much greater Importance than its commerce. They conf chiefly of coarſe woollen cloth, called Kendaîl Cottons, pro- perly, it is ſaid coatings, gunpowder, ſtockings, ſlk and worſted, waiſtcoat pieces, fiannels, andá tanned leather-

Moft beautiful ſtockings, and carpets of ſtrength and luſtre, little inferior to thoſe of Perſia, are manufaQured at Lowther for behoof of the Earl of Lonſdale. A few of theſe have been ſold from 631. to 1051; but as they are

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