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Letter XI. Multiplication of Trades is not necessary.
or drawing in a capstern for turning a mill, nothing can be said in respect
of pecuniary productiveness, till the mill, the machine, or the engine are
specified, nor any thing, that can be found to distinguish them from
other employments, except the room and the expence, which such
implements seem more particularly to require. 3.d Beating of hemp
is a business too proverbial to be unknown to any body, and, in those
establishments where it has had compulsion for its motive, has not
hitherto, I believe, proved a very profitable one: and if I may believe
people who are of the trade, and who have no interest to mislead me,
hemp beaten by hand, tho it takes more labour does not fetch so good
a price, as when beaten at a watermill: 4th. Rasping logwood is an
employment, which is said by Mr Howard, I think, and others, to
be carried on in some Work-houses in Holland, and I believe to
some profit. But I know it has been carried on likewise by the
natural primum mobiles; Witness a witness a Windmill, which,
I remember, a tenant of yours employed in this way; and I can
conceive few operations, in which those natural powers promise to have
greater advantage over the human. 5. Chopping rags is a business that can
answer no other purpose than the supplyings materials for paper-mills,
which cannot any where be established without a supply of running water:
an element which, I am sure in many, and I am apt to think, in all
paper-mills hitherto established, affords for this operation a primum
mobile much more advantageous than human labour. In the 6.th 7.th and
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