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338 called in the cotton manufacture a "Stretcher," worked by one man, produced as follows:

The same man working at another Stretcher, the Roving a little finer, produced,

In this instance, production has gradually increased until, at the end of twenty-two years, three times as much work is done as at the commencement, although the manual labour employed remains the same. The weekly earnings of the workmen have not fluctuated very much, and appear, on the whole, to have advanced: but it would be imprudent to push too far reasonings founded upon a single instance.

(410.) The produce of 480 spindles of "mule yarn spinning," at different periods, was as follows:

(411.) The subjoined view of the state of weaving by hand and by power looms, at Stockport, in the