ABSTRACT
NEXT in the rate of progress to the cotton manufacture, during the present century, must rank the woollen and worsted industry of the West Riding of Yorkshire, which is its principal seat. The imports of foreign and colonial wool in 1771, were one million eight hundred and twenty-nine thousand seven hundred and seventy-two pounds; and in 1856, the amount was one hundred and sixteen million two hundred and eleven thousand three hundred and ninety-two pounds, being an increase of six thousand two hundred and fifty per cent. The total exports of raw wool, at this latter period, amounted to forty-one million fifty-eight thousand five hundred and sixty-seven pounds, leaving seventy-five million one hundred and fifty-two thousand eight hundred and twenty-five pounds, in addition to the total home-growth, to be spun or manufactured.
