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There is one mill for grain of every description, furnished with a complete set of machinery of the most approved construction, and kept in good order. Calico-printing is carried on at Blanefield, according to the most recent improvements. At Dumbroch bleachfield, two spider wheels are employed, each thirty feet in diameter, and the company are masters of a process, which at once reduces the ex- pense of bleaching, and improves the fabric and appearance of the STRATMBLANE. 83 cloth. Were the Ir...ish Board of Linen in possession of the secret, it would add prodigiously to the value of the linen manufacture of Ireland. III. — PorULATION. The average number of baptisms, 17*29, 1730, and 1731, was 26. The average number for the years 1829, 1830, and 1831, was 24. If this be a fair criterion of the proportion of the popu- lation at these two periods, the parish must have been rather more populous a century ago, before the introduction of a large print- field and two bleachfields, than it is at present.
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