The cries of London : exhibiting several of the itinerant traders of antient and modern times . ^ description of manufac-ture, over those of most parts of the world; but it never suc-cessfully rivalled the Basket-makers and Willow-workers ofFrance and Holland, either for bleaching or weaving; norperhaps is it possible for any skill to exceed that of the Frenchin their present mode of making baskets and other such the childrens rattles of the Dutch and French, surpassanything of the kind made in this country. The willow iscommon in most parts of Holland, so that they have a greatchoic
The cries of London : exhibiting several of the itinerant traders of antient and modern times . ^ description of manufac-ture, over those of most parts of the world; but it never suc-cessfully rivalled the Basket-makers and Willow-workers ofFrance and Holland, either for bleaching or weaving; norperhaps is it possible for any skill to exceed that of the Frenchin their present mode of making baskets and other such the childrens rattles of the Dutch and French, surpassanything of the kind made in this country. The willow iscommon in most parts of Holland, so that they have a greatchoice of a selection of wood, and the females are taught theart of twisting it at a very early age. It must be acknow-ledged, that the natives of Hudsons Bay are very curiousworkers of baskets and other useful articles made of the barksof trees, and even the most uncultivated nations often displayexquisite neatness in their modes of making them. The /2. , r^. i<rr • i» 43 French carry their basket ware either in small barrows or inlittle carts, and sell them at so cheap a rate, by reason of thefew duties they have to pay to Government, that it would behnpossible for an Enjilishman, were he master of the art ofproducing them, to sell them for less than ten times the sum. That very wonderful people the Chinese probably were thefirst who thought of hand-screens to protect the face from thesun. We find them introduced in their earliest delineations ofcostume. The feathered fans of our Elizabeth might occa-sionally have been used as fire screens, in hke manner asthose now imported from the East Indies, also composed offeathers, and which frequently adorn our chimney pieces. Itis possible, however, that as our vendor of Fire-screens hasparticularly acquainted us with the use of his screens, theymight have been the first that were introduced decidedly forthat purpose. XIII. JL HE female vendor of Sausages exhibi
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