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it at 5 liv. 10 4 to 5 liv. 15 f. and 6 Hv. and earn in general al:ont 12/ a day; childrenbegin at fix or lcven years old. Very little wool fpun, as the whole country is employedon cotton.

Havre .—The country people can buy their cotton al 300 liv. the quintal, which is tothe quintal of Par's as 108 is to 100; at Rouen it is 106; they have 40/ a pound forfpinning it, and a woman earns 16 f. a day. I was here allured, that none of the cottonmills of France were on a great efiablifhment, as I fhould find when I viewed them ;much talked of only at a diftance.

Pont a de Mer. —In the tannery and curriery here the men earn from 24 f. to 4 liv.a day.

Caen . —Silk lace, 15 f women, fome fo high as <0.

Bayeux . —Lace of filk and thread, women earn in common 10 to 1 2/ but fome 20to 24 f.

Cherbourg.— Blown plate glafe, blowers 40 to 50 f. lowefl workmen 24/.

Bretagne. — Rennes . —Sundries, 25/# a day.

St. Brieux.— Spinning .wool 8/. to :o f. per pbund.

St. Ouintin , Londeac , isc. —Linen, weavers 9 f. an auln, and do four in a day ofcommon work, 30 to 36 f. common wages, fpinners 10 to 20 f. but the latter very un-common.

Ponton.— Many fpinners do not earn more than 5 /. a day, 10 hours.

Morlaix . —-For. fpinning ia/, a pound; and do it in three days befides family bu-finefs.

An j ou-i—W eavers, 8/. per auln, and do 3 or 4 a day.

Angers. —Weavers 30 to 35/. fpinners 5 to 8/. more by wool than by cotton or; flax*'on <3 pound of flax in a day for 6 f ; one pound of fine cotton, three days to a week,and for 30/.

Maine .-^Guefceland —Spinning hemp, do half a pound at 10/. the pound, but a\ very good fpinner will do a pound.

^Normantsie.— Alengon.— 8 f. a day by fpinning hemp, and 10, and even to 12 andi 15, but this is only for the fineft of 5 6 f. the auln.

Gace. —Spinning flax 9/. a day, which is rather more than they gain by hemp.

Elbmuf. —Spinning wool 5! to 11/. weavers 30 to 35 f.

Darnciel .—Spinning wool 8 to 12 f. a man carding 20 to 28/. weaving 24 to 30 f.

Louviers. —Spinning wool 12/. weavers 24 to 35/. and the highefl: wages earned48 /

La Roche Guyon . —Spinning cotton, good ones earn 12 and 15/ Spinning hemp 10to 12 f. the pound, and one pound in two days.

Champagne— Rheims. —For carding and fpinning, are paid by the chain and gain<6 f. a day, at prefent 12 f. when the fabric was flourifhing, a weaver, that is a good hand,20 to 2 5/. a day by the piece, but he has to pay a child, if he has none of his own, 3 or4 f. out of it.

Bourgogne.— Mont Cenis. —Forge men 30 to 40/.

Auvergne . — Clermont —In the mountains.

Vellay .—Le Pay —Making lace, earn 4 to 8/ a day.

•Vivarais. — Pradelles . —Ditto, 7 or 8/..and fome up to 20 f.

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