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History of the cotton manufacture in Great Britain : with a notice of its early history in the East, and in all the quarters of the globe : a description of the great mechanical inventions, which have caused its unexampled extension in Britain, and a view of the present state of the manufacture and the condition of the classes engaged in its several departments (1835)

Baines, Edward, Sir, 1800-1890 · London : H. Fisher, R. Fisher, and P. Jackson · leaf 451

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been supplied by esti-mate. In Mr. Saunderss statement, several mills inwhich cotton is worked are omitted, from the causesassigned. In Mr. Horners statement, at least one mill(in the north of Yorkshire) is omitted. We shall pro-bably not err on the side of excess, if we take the opera-tives in the… … THE COTTON MANUFACTURE. 395 horses, of which 33,000 horse-power is that of steam-engines, and 11,000 is that of water-wheels. It must be remarked, that this result, obtained for thegreatest part from actual returns, corresponds veryclosely with Mr. Stanways calculation, after deductingthe supposed…

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