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ployed in preparing flour, meal, barley, snuff, bark, and lint; forleazing, carding, roving, and spinning wool, flax, and cotton ;lor preparing dye-stuffs, bleaching salts, paints, fire-clay, &c. ;for winding, weaving, tambouring, printing, washing, wauking,calendering, &c. ; for boring, blowing, hammering, &c. ; andlor raising water and minerals. The manufacture of machineryis therefore a most important branch of Scottish industry, as notonly all the internal mechanism necessary for these operations isto be made and fitted up, but also the primary movements, asthe water-wheels, wind-mills, and steam-engines themselves; andthe whole must be upheld in proper working order.
Cart and .Plough-making _This forms an important branch
of the mechanical art; and cart and plough-wrights a,re foundin every district of the country. Besides carts, waggons, andploughs, it includes many other agricultural impl ments, andsometimes, though not often, fanning, thrashing, and other ma-chines. Of late years, several ingenious improvements have beenmade on the plough, for the various purposes of the common anddrill husbandry. Ploughs of iron, both malleable and cast, havebeen introduced, and are likely to answer well. It would be dif-ficult to ascertain with accuracy the number of cart and plough-wights employed in Scotland ; but besides those in the town? andvillages, there is one or more in almost every parish of the coun-try* A number of farming implements, have of late years beenexported to England, and to foreign parts; and this trade is regu-larly on the increase.
Coach Making .—The business of coach-making is carried on in.Edinburgh, Glasgow, Perth, Aberdeen , &e. but not to any con-siderable extent. The progress of luxury, and the excellentroadsevery where in Scotland , have both contributed to the ex-tension of this manufacture, which is daily increasing. Coaches,chaises, gigs, &c. are now finished in this country, in a mannerlittle, if at all inferior to those of London ; and besides the homeconsumption, a few are exported to Russia , and the other ports°f the Baltic, to the West Indies, and to America .
■Musical Instrument Making. — Piano-fortes are made at Edin-Itt’gh and Aberdeen . Fiutes, fifes, and similar wind-instru-ments, are made at Edinburgh, Glasgow , and at one or twomore towns, but the quantity is trifling; and the same may beobserved in regard to the Scottish great, and the smaller Irishmtgpipes. Most of the clarionets, hautboys, flutes, &c. arebrought from London , as well as metallic stringed instruments,organs, French and bugle-horns, trumpets, &c. and the greaterfart of the vHins. There are several persons in Edinburgh , whofire by making and mending violins. Piano-fortes, however, and0, ber musical instruments, are chiefly of London manufacture,^ n <l are generally preferred as still rather superior to those ofScotland , in both tone and finishing.