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wrought ſolely for his own uſe, or to be given in preſents to his friends, perhaps they do not enter with propriety into an enumeration of the manufactures of the county. What is now the manufactory, was originally a college, but, being only in its probationary fate, was diſcontinued >"by the late Lord Viſcount Lonſdale. The Earl of Selkirk, and the late Duke of Athol, were educated heres; and an aſh-tree, planted by his Lordſhip, is fill pointed out.

SECT. 7.— Poor.

Weſtmoreland not being a manufadturing county, and landed property being there, in general, minutely divided, the number of poor who apply for parochial aid, is com-

ſmall. The poor rates in the pariſh of Kendall are 3s. 8d. in the pound of the actual rent, which is very near four times the average of the rate throughout the county, Were it not unfair to draw a general concluſion from one example, it might be inferred that the poor are moft numerous in manufacturing counties and towns,

DECT. 8.— Population.

The inhabitants of Kendall were found, by an aQua! enumeration in 1793, to amount to 8089, and the whole population of the county has been eſtimated at 25 Or 20 thouſand. As the number of births conſiderably exceeds the number of burials, many of the inhabitants mut migrate to other countics.

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