Sketches of the Coasts And Islands of Scotland And of the Isle of Man ...
Sketches of the Coasts And Islands of Scotland And of the Isle of Man ...
John Shore Teignmouth
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' The military service has been far less congenial to the habits of the Manksmen than the naval ; and the esprit de corps of these islanders has never been roused into action, as in Scotland, by the formation of a local corps. There is one branch of employment connected with the present system which cannot be too zealously encouraged, the domestic manufactures, already alluded to, whicli are carried on by the y Google MANUFACTURES. 209 females, wha are consequently never idle. At whatever hour ...the cottage or farm-house is entered, the women and girls will be found, unless employed in the field or farm-yard, intent on the labour of the spinning-wheel or loom. They fabricate fishing- nets, woollen cloths, cottons or linens The rigid economist, who could desire the entire transfer of the domestic manufacture to Leeds or Manchester, as requiring a far less portion of labour, and con- sequently of cost, forgets that the time actually bestowed on it is leisure^ which would be otherwise unemployed, unprofitable, and consequently ex- posed to temptations, to discord, and vice.
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