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famous for the weaving of Tartar, the celebrated garb of the Scottiſh Highlanders. It js believed that the whole tartan employed for plaids, hoſe,&c. of the many battallions of Highlanders in the Britiſh army, 15 manufadured in this village. The wool, of which it 1s made, is brought prin- cipally from the counties of Peebles and Roxburgh: it is ſpun and dyed chiefly in the town of Stirling, and the im- mediate vicinity, where the dyers have been long famous for their dexterity.=-Carpets are alſo a conſiderable article of the woollen manufa&ure; but confined to the town of Stirling- The kind of carpets is what is generally called the Scotch; and riſes in price from 25. to 4 5. a-yard.=-A few years ago the manufacturers of Stirling introduced a coarſe and thin ſpecies of woollen cloth, very much wore by gentlemen in the ſummer ſeaſon; and which, from the place where invented, was called Störlingette. The wear was found to be unprofitable, and the caprice of faſhion ſoon drove it out of vogue.--Serge, a coarſe kind of wool- len cloth, is manufa&ured every where about Stirling; the price from 10 d. to 15. 64. per yard.

Cotton.. Several mils, on 2 large ſcale, and upon Sir Richard Arkwright's principle, have been ere&ed in this county. Unfortunately the great depreſſion of all opera- tions in manufa&ures, in the year 1793, did not a little damp the ſpirit of all buſineſs in this county; inſomuch that it js believed, not above two-thirds of the number of hands employed in the valuable manufadure of cotton, prior to the beginning of that year, are at preſent in full work.--- There 35 at Ballikinrain, in the parilh of Killearn, a ſmall mill for the woollen branch. It is conſtru&ed nearly on che ſame principles with the cotton ones. This undertakKk- ing is believed to go on pretty ſucceſsfully. Not ſo does an extenſive przztfield, eſtabliſhed three years ago, upon the ſame river. The whole country in the vicinity of theſe works looks with an ardent deſire for the re-eſtabliſhment and