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OF COPYING.

table subjoined, cost ten shillings per dress, and eachweigh six ounces; the cotton from which they aremade weighing nearly six and two-ninth ouncesavoirdupois weight.

Weight of One Square Yard of each of the followingArticles.*

Description of Goods.

Value

per Yard

Measure.

Weight

finished of

One Square

Yard.

Weight of

Cotton usedin making

One Square

Y’ard.

Caterpillar Veils.

t. d.

Troy Grains.

H

Trey Grain*.

Silk Gauze 3-4 wide.

1 0

137

'Finest Patent Net.

262£

Fine Cambric Muslin.

551

6-4ths Jaconet Muslin.

2 0

613

670

Ladies’ coloured Muslin Dresses

3 0

78S

875

. 6-4ths Cambric.

1 2

972

1069

9-Sths Calico.

0 9

988

1085

J-vard Nankeen.

0 8

2240

2432

(127.) This enumeration, which is far from com-plete, of the arts in which copying is the foundation,may be terminated with an example which has longbeen under the eye of the reader; although few,perhaps, are aw'are of the number of repeated copy-ings of which these very pages are the subject.

* Some of these weights and measures are calculated from astatement in the Report of the Committee of the House ofCommons on Printed Cotton Goods; and the widths of thepieces there given are presumed to be the real widths, notthose by which they are called in the retail shops.