At length a woollen manufa&ure arofe in fome degree. There
was an exportation of it into Holland till 1720: it was a coarfe kind
fuch as is made in the Highlands: much of it was fold to Glafgow,
and fent into America, for blankets for the Indians. It is in Scotland
a clothing for the country people, and is worth about 10 d. or 12 d.
a yard. The only broad cloth worth mentioning is that made at
Paul’s work in Edinburgh, which is brought to great perfeftion.
L I N E N M A N U F A C T U R E.
I Cannot afcertain the time when the linen manufactures arofe.
There could not be a great call for the commodity, a century and
half ago, when people of fafhion fcarcely changed their Ihirts above
once the week in England. But, thanks to the luxury, or rather the
neatnefs, of the times, this article has become a moil, national advantage.
The following table will ihew the flouriihing ftate of it in this
kingdom ; and its great advance in forty three years. At the foot of
it is an account of the imports o f flax into England and Scotland: and
of the exports of coal from the laft.
A C C O M P T
From 1 ft No v, 1 7 2 7 to i f t Nov. 1728 5 and
Shires»
Aberdeen
Air -
Argyle
Berwick
Caithnefs -
Clackmannan
Cromarty -
Dumbarton -
Dumfries -
Edinburgh ■».
Elgin - -
fyjft - - Forfar
Hadinton -
ln<vernefs -
Kincardine -
Kinrofs
Kirkcudbright
hanerk
Linlithgow -
Nairne
Orkney - -
Peebles -
Perth - -
Renfrew -
Rofs - -
Roxburgh -
Selkirk
Stirling
Sutherland -
Yards.
4 1 .0 4 0 1
26.699
432
101.618
9-293
2.895
v 66.027
3.002
747 1.254
361.9851
595.8211
363 10.696
2 7 .8 8 5 !
53-921
272.6581
6-353
477-743
85-527 t IO.844
15.822 §
8-732 »
. 2.548
67
Price per
Value.
Y ard at a
1.539 Medium O 2-x
2.o86 I7 2
32 8 o
3.810 13 6
365 16 1
240 IO 2
2.356 8 6
152 13 8
198 17 0
4 7 1 2 6
30.175 10 9 %
' 4-733 '3 I
18 3 o
401 2 O
r -°45 H 3 f 2.906 19 0
9.968 o 3
476 9 6
23-955 0 4 - 6.852 14 9
402 6 6
9 14 16 8 i
436 12 6
191 2 9
3 7
iFrom 1 Pc N o v. 1 7 70 to iQcNoy. 1 7 7 1
Yards.
198.177
193-413
54-385 56.129
S-591
173.892
43- ‘¿7 2I4.834
63.676
I.885.622
5.7OO.85I
u i . 835
223.798
II8.628
79-450 1.302
2.019.782
2.204
H-734
1.6674.717 84-557 10.145
55-625
47.956
16.996
To ta l 2.183.978 1103.312 9 3 o U-A 13.672.548.
O 0 O 2
Value.
14.716
10.530
3->32 9 1 5-645 4 5 i
Price pei
Yard at a
Medium.
187 7 O
h .618 17 12 1 4
2-'34 8 'I - '
19.487 12 o
' 2-344 8 4 72->38 3 2 :
147,456 19 3
10.838 6 I I 2 I II
6.425 5 2 o ■ 6 1/
4.03° 3 2
2.852 3 1.
1 14 19 10
i 72-347 12 9
188 4 i
.852 12 8
2.257 12 5
66.153 6 3
70 .17 7 9 6
4 1 0 - 9 4
3.379 IO' 11
2.278 15 0
691 o 5
632-389 3 5 ;
0 9t-
An