Long or uncut line 3 systems of 640 spindles = 1920
Ditto -- tow 3 ditto 660 ditto 1980 3900
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Cut -- line 5 ditto 480 ditto 2400
Ditto -- tow 2 ditto 1800 ditto 3600 6000
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Total of spinning spindles 9900
3900 spindles, at an average of 30 leas yarn per lb., would turn off 9
leas per spindle per diem with waste circa 1400 lbs.
6000 spindles, at an average of 100 leas yarn per lb., would turn off 6
leas per spindle per diem with waste circa 450 lbs.
Yarns produced: _£. s. d._
Of average 30 leas per lb. per week circa 1050 boles at
9_s._ 472 10 0
Of ditto 100 ditto -- -- 1080 -- 486 0 0
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Total weekly produce 2130 958 10 0
_£. s. d._
Weekly charges, wages, &c. 150 0 0
Flax 400 0 0
Weekly expenses 40 0 0
Interest on 60,000_l._ } 120 0 0
10 per annum } 710 0 0
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Weekly profit 248 10 0
Measures of flax yarn; and statistics of the linen trade for the United
Kingdom.
One lea of flax yarn at Leeds is = 300 yards.
One spindle Scotch = 38 leas = 11400 yards.
One rand = 6 ditto = 1800 ditto.
One dozen is 12 rands = 72 ditto = 21600 ditto.
When yarn is estimated in Nos. it implies the number of leas in one
pound weight; as in cotton, it means the number of hanks of 840 yards
each in one pound.
_Imports of flax and tow, or codilla of hemp and flax, at a duty of 1d.
per cwt., in_
1834. 1835. 1837. 1838.
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lbs. lbs. lbs. lbs.
811,722 740,814 1,529,116 1,002,256
_Retained for
consumption._ 794,272 728,143 1,532,059 1,002,408