History of Cultivated Vegetables: Comprising Their Botanical ..., volume 1

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History of Cultivated Vegetables: Comprising Their Botanical ..., volume 1
Henry Phillips
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_ . Manchester^ being the centre aod heart.of the cotton-trade^ ha^ either ^venlHrth tq^, or attracted genius firoinall quarters of the nation^ to.assist in the necessary op^^atkms for form* ing;fabricsas numerous as their embdlishing eoliours are rarious^ in which the arts of the engineer, the mechanic, and the artist, as wdl asthe^spinner, the wearer, the bleacher, the dy^ the iStainer, and the. chemist, are all called into a^etion.
This vegetable wool, that employs m great a portion of our p
...opulation, is imported in a raw useless state, and is advantageously ex- ported, after being stamped with British art and industry. .
The following account of a pound weight of unmanufectured cotton strikingly evhices the importance of the trade and employ af- forded by this vegetable : " The cotton-wool Digitized by Google 168 CULTIVATED TEG^TABLBS.
came from the^ East Indies to London ; from London' it went to Manchester, where it was manufactured into yam ; from Manchester it was sent to Paisley, where it was woven ; it wtis then sent to Ayrshire, where it was tam- boiu*ed ; it K^me back to Paisley, and was there veined; afterwards it was sent to Dum- barton, where it was hand-sewed, and again brought to Paisley,; whence it was sent to Renfrew to be bleached, and was returned to Paisley ; whence it went to Glasgow and was finished; and from Glasgow was sent per coach to London.


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