Essays on the Trade, Commerce, Manufactures, and Fisheries of Scotland: Containing, Remarks on the Situation of Most of the Sea-ports ; the Number of Shipping Employed ; Their Tonnage : Strictures on the Principal Inland Towns ; the Different Branches of Trade and Commerce Carried on ; and the Various Improvements Made in Each : Hints and Observations on the Constitutional Police ; with Many Other Curious and Interesting Articles Never Yet Published, Volum 2Walter and Thomas Ruddiman, 1778 - 237 pàgines |
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Pàgina 123 - Is any sick ? The Man of Ross relieves, Prescribes, attends, the med'cine makes, and gives. Is there a variance ? Enter but his door, Balk'd are the courts, and contest is no more.
Pàgina 123 - What all fo wifh, but want the pow'r to do ! Oh fay, what fums that gen'rous hand fupply ? What mines, to fwell that boundlefs charity ? P. Of Debts, and Taxes, Wife and Children clear, This man pofleft — five hundred pounds a year.
Pàgina 122 - His race, his form, his name almoft unknown! Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name: Go, fearch it there, where to be born and die, Of rich and poor, makes all the hiftory ; Enough that virtue fill'd the fpace between; Prov'd, by the ends of being, to have been.
Pàgina 123 - Who taught that heaven-direfted fpire to rife? • The Man of Rofs,' each lifping babe replies, Behold the market-place with poor o'erfpread ! The Man of Rofs...
Pàgina 57 - During these hours of jubilee, they meet at certain houses, where the fiddles, with the young ladies' partners, are ready to begin the dance ; and they continue, with the highest innocent mirth, till eight, when they immediately go home to their work with cheerfulness and alacrity. This practice promotes matrimony, and contributes much to inspire in the minds of the people a desire to be neat 'and clean in their dress. The young men marry here when they are...
Pàgina 74 - Scott is of much service to this place, he manufactures into cloth and yarn fifty packs of wool and eight packs of Riga flax annually, and is employed by Clement...
Pàgina 7 - The number of people fuppofed to be employed in different branches of the woolen manufactory, in and about Haddington, is reckoned to be upwards of 800, •who pay for their wool in the fleece, from five to eighteen millings per ftone.
Pàgina 59 - Kilmarnock), who, obferving the indolence of the people ef that place, brought fpinners and -weavers of carpets from Dalkeith about the year 1728. From that time, the woolen manufacture has been carried on to a confiderable extent in Kilmarnock, owing to the patriodfm of this lady, who is ftill alive.
Pàgina 61 - There are 200 looms employed in the (ilk manufacture in and about this place, and about 40 looms in the linen Branch.
Pàgina 44 - Reid, who carry on the bleachfield here, make a confulerable quantity of ounce threads for the London market, frequently to the amount of 9000 fpindles annually.