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404 produce copper-plate engravings from medals, 155.

Labour, price of, at Calicut, 2 (note); division of, 217, c. 19; division of mental, 241, c. 20; effect of machinery in reducing the demand for, 404, c. 32.

Lace, made by caterpillars, 158; (see also ); single-press, 185; double-press, ib.; machine for patent net, 265; embroidered, 429.

Lace trade, evidence before the House of Commons on, 185; ditto, 347.

Lace-frames, 349.

Lead, waste of, 200; pig, 214, 216.

Leaden toys, 106; pipes, 143.

Leather, embossing on, 122.

Letter-boxes, of post-office, 55.

Letter-copying, 98.

Lettering books, 95.

Letter-press printing, 93.

Letters, conveyance of, 334.

Lime, sulphate of, 51.

Linen-drapery, deceits in, 188.

Lithographic prints, 100, 103.

Liverpool, table of population in, 3; institution for the blind at, 14; signals at, 44.

Load, most advantageous for porters, 33.

Logarithms, great French tables of, 242.

London manufactures at the court of Bello, 2 (note).

Looking-glasses, 199; table of prices of, 206.

Luddites, 281.