Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . ise legislation industrv developed bv dint of Manu- *— tit f3,CtilirGS energy and intelligence. Under such native guidance as thatof Iorbes and Kames and a band of seK-sacriticing improvers,the face of the country was so altered that according to acontemporary, one returning to Scotland in 1800 after fortyyears absence would find his direction only by the neigh-bouring hills. The Board of Linen Manufacturers
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . ise legislation industrv developed bv dint of Manu- *— tit f3,CtilirGS energy and intelligence. Under such native guidance as thatof Iorbes and Kames and a band of seK-sacriticing improvers,the face of the country was so altered that according to acontemporary, one returning to Scotland in 1800 after fortyyears absence would find his direction only by the neigh-bouring hills. The Board of Linen Manufacturers (1727)fostered the time-honoured industry of the fireside by premiums 242 (390 REVOLUTION AND BEACTION. [1784 Oil the tinished stuffs, the amiual value of which rose from£293,864 in 1748 to £936,453 in 1805, ditfusin^ valuableresources among many industrial villages. The British FisherySociety (1786) strove to create the net and line fishing indeep waters, paying bounties till 1830. But the greatesttriumphs in industry were Avon by Glasgow. , Provost Ingramestabhshed the first calico print-field at Pollokshaws in 1742,and before the end of the century there wfere thirty in and. AX XECKLACE, WITH EAERIXGS AND BUCKLES.(Xatiomd Museum uf Scottisli Antiquities, Edinburgh.) around the city. The inventions of Hargreaves, Crompton,and Arkwright led, about 1785, to the cotton industry and avast trade in muslins. David Dale, a practical philanthropistof advanced type, secured land about this time on the estatesof Judge Brasfield, and with Arkwrights help laid out thenovel industrial village of New Lanark, near the Falls of theClyde. His water mill was the first of the kind in the he made use of the labour of the expatriated Highlanders,boarding the young in barracks and employing teachersto instruct them at a time when elementary education wasthought a distracting luxury. Rapidly cotton mills were set SCOTLAND. 691 1802] up wherever labour and water
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