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England peculiarly a Manufacturing Country, § 1. Its Manufactures spread throughout the World, 2. Proportions of Agricultural Population in various Countries; its gradual Increase in England, 3. Sources of the advantages derived from Machinery and Manufactures, 4.Additions to Human Power. Experiment on Force to move a Block of Stone, 5.Economy of Time. Gunpowder, 6. Convenience of Speaking Tubes, 7. Diamond for cutting Glass; its Hardness, 8.Employment of Materials of little Value. Goldbeaters' Skin; horny Refuse; old Tin Ware, 9.Of Tools, 10. To arrange Needles, 11. To place their Points in one Direction, 12. Substitute for Hand; Nail making, 13. Shoe-machinery; Sash-lines, 14.Division of the Objects of Machinery. To produce Power; to transmit Force and execute Work; general Principles, 15. Wind; Water, 16. Steam; Force not created, 17. Economy of Time in various Modes of dividing the Root of a Tree, 18. Chinese Mode of conveying Cotton compared with European, 19.