. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . 2510.—Loudon, from i oik Colun t,.. ^7 r!~- , of ItnightsbrMge. 3G5 366 OLD ENGLAND. [Book VIII. We need net pursue the history of cotton fabrics any ve to do so we should have to enter upon a field of inquiryof such ^ast extent as would only perplex and bewilder us, lookingto the mere span of space we could devote to it. Let it suffice tosay, that talents of the highest order, capital without limit, energy, have been employed in this department of
. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . 2510.—Loudon, from i oik Colun t,.. ^7 r!~- , of ItnightsbrMge. 3G5 366 OLD ENGLAND. [Book VIII. We need net pursue the history of cotton fabrics any ve to do so we should have to enter upon a field of inquiryof such ^ast extent as would only perplex and bewilder us, lookingto the mere span of space we could devote to it. Let it suffice tosay, that talents of the highest order, capital without limit, energy, have been employed in this department of com-merce for the last fifty years—that all that art and ingenuity caneffect in the production of the most exquisite fabrics and designs isconstantly effected, and that the markets of the whole world aresupplied from the cotton-factories of Lancashire. Contemporaneously with the cotton manufactures, those of silks,woollens, and linens have advanced, if not in a corresponding ratioas to quantity, yet with equal strides as to excellence in textile fabrics of England, Avhatever be the material em-ployed, take rank among th
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