The Beauties of Scotland: Containing a Clear and Full Account of the Agriculture, Commerce, Mines, and Manufactures; of the Population, Cities, Towns, Villages, &c. of Each County ...T. Bonar and J. Brown, 1806 - Architecture |
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... linens , commonly called Silesias , woven from twenty - seven to thirty inches in breadth , some coarse . fabrics , provincially called tweels , barns , and straikens . A great deal of linen is woven for private use , as the people in ...
... linens , commonly called Silesias , woven from twenty - seven to thirty inches in breadth , some coarse . fabrics , provincially called tweels , barns , and straikens . A great deal of linen is woven for private use , as the people in ...
Page 43
... linens , & c . of yarn spun in their own houses , and mostly of lint raised in the county . From the Statistical Account of the parishes , it appears that about 400 looms are employed in the weaving manufac- ture . Every three looms ...
... linens , & c . of yarn spun in their own houses , and mostly of lint raised in the county . From the Statistical Account of the parishes , it appears that about 400 looms are employed in the weaving manufac- ture . Every three looms ...
Page 99
... linens are manufac tured , and upwards of two hundred looms are continually at work : but a complaint has sometimes been made , that here , as in all other small privileged towns , borough politics do much mischief to industry . There ...
... linens are manufac tured , and upwards of two hundred looms are continually at work : but a complaint has sometimes been made , that here , as in all other small privileged towns , borough politics do much mischief to industry . There ...
Page 103
... linen and Osnaburghs , not made by great manu- facturers , but prepared in private families . Many of the towns of Fife lost a great number of their inhabitants in the battle of Kilsyth , in which they fought on the side of the ...
... linen and Osnaburghs , not made by great manu- facturers , but prepared in private families . Many of the towns of Fife lost a great number of their inhabitants in the battle of Kilsyth , in which they fought on the side of the ...
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... linen , bed - ticks , chequered and striped linens , with a mixture of cotton in some of them , and low - priced sorts of plain linen . The spinning of cotton has also been introduced ; but the greater number of common people Kirkcaldy ...
... linen , bed - ticks , chequered and striped linens , with a mixture of cotton in some of them , and low - priced sorts of plain linen . The spinning of cotton has also been introduced ; but the greater number of common people Kirkcaldy ...
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Page 479 - ... acknowledge that I was afraid to put it to the press, and for the same cause I ought to have the same fears still...
Page 332 - They kindle a fire, and dress a repast of eggs and milk in the consistence of a custard. They knead a cake of oatmeal, which is toasted at the embers against a stone. After the custard is eaten up, they divide the cake into so many portions, as similar as possible to one another in size and shape, as there are persons in the company. They daub one of these portions all over with charcoal, until it be perfectly black. They put all the bits of the cake into a bonnet.
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Page 332 - Beltan or 2&/-&2#-day, all the boys in a township or hamlet meet in the moors. They cut a table in the green sod, of a round figure, by casting a trench in the ground of such circumference as to hold the whole company. They kindle a fire, and dress a repast of eggs and milk in the consistence of a custard. They knead a cake of oatmeal, which is toasted at the embers against a stone. After the custard is eaten up, they divide the...
Page 358 - The first race of scholars, in the fifteenth century, and some time after, were, for tho most part, learning to speak, rather than to think, and were therefore more studious of elegance than of truth. The contemporaries of Boethius thought it sufficient to know what the ancients had delivered. The examination of tenets and of facts was reserved for another generation.
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Page 293 - ... having ascended from the coal-pit, and seeing himself without any previous intimation surrounded by the sea, he was seized with an immediate apprehension of some plot against his liberty or life, and called out ' Treason ! ' But his faithful guide quickly dispelled his fears by assuring him that he was in perfect safety, and pointing to an elegant pinnace that was made fast to the moat, desired to know whether it was most agreeable to his Majesty to be carried ashore in it, or return by the way...
Page 326 - Turn your astonish'd eyes ; behold yon huge And unhewn sphere of living adamant, Which, poised by magic, rests its central weight On yonder pointed rock ; firm as it seems, Such is its strange and virtuous property, It moves obsequious to the gentlest touch Of him whose breast is pure ; but to a traitor, Tho' even a giant's prowess nerv'd his arm, It stands as fixed as Snowdon.