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quantity of cloth woven in a year will amount to about 948,800 yards. Allowing a farthing per yard of clear profit to the manufa&urer or owner'of the cloth, an additional ſum of 7801. muſt be made to the earnings of the weavers, and others employed in fabricating the cloth, amounting in whole to no leſs than 89951. To this might be added, the profits ariſing from railing, dreſſing, and ſpinning the lint uſed in this manufa&ure. But as this branch of the trade is not confined to this county, it cannot well be brought into the account. From the above ſum, there ſhould, however, be deduded an allowance for fabricating that cuftomary cloth 4hat is not expoſed to ſale, but worn in the county..-Sup- poling it to amount to 9931., which, at 34. per yard for weaving and other manufa&uring expences, will come to 79,600 yards of cloth, annually worn by the inhabitants, or about 13 yards to each individual, there will remain:a ſum of 20001. annually imported into the county for labour a= lone. As the moſt part:of this money is expended 4n the county, the greateſt ſhare of it falls, either directly or indi- redtUy, into the hands of the farmers, chiefßly for vidtuals; as drunkenneſs, according to one'of the ſtatiſtical accounts of this place,“ is entirely unknown* 7" eſpecially at Millna- thort, inhabited chicfly by weavers.

But manufadures are beneficial to agriculture, not mere- Iy on account of the ready cafh tliey throw into the market, but alſo on account of the manure which the perfons em- ployed in them produce.

In the pariſh of Portmoak is a parchment manufa&ure, Syhich is carried on by two perſons. This branch of buſineſs has been eſtabliſhed in Kinneſswood above 1'50 years. Great quantities of this manufacture are ſent to Edinburgh and Glaſgow. The continued encouragement the manufaCturers

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