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Letter XI. Multiplication of Trades is not necessary
accordingly proposes for consideration a variety of examples. For such of the
prisoners as offenders who were to be worked the hardest, 1. Treading in a wheel.
2. Drawing in a capstern for turning a mill or other machine or
engine. 3. Beating hemp. 4. Rasping logwood. 5. Chopping rag.
6. Sawing timber. 7. Working at forges. 8. Smelting. For those
who were to be most favoured, Making ropes. 2 Weaving sacks. 3.
Spinning yarn. 4. Knitting nets.
I find some difficulty, however, in conceiving to what
use this instruction was destined, unless it were the edification of
that class of legislators, more frequently quoted for worth than knowledge
the Country Gentlemen. To some gentlemen of that respectable description
it might for ought I know be matter of consolation, to see that
industry could find so many shapes to assume, on such a stage. But if it
was designed, as a specimen to give a general view of the purposes to
which manual labour may me be applied, it goes not very far, and there
are publications enough that go some hundreds of times farther. If
the former of its two chapters was designed, as a specimen of such work
of a particularly laborious cast, as are capable of being carried onto
the greatest advantage, or with least advance of capital, or with the
greatest security against workmen of so refractory a complection or if
either chapter was destined as a specimen of employments that required
least extent of room, in any of these cases the specimen of such work
seems not a very happy one. 1. And 2. Of the treading in a wheel, or
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