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Some account of Savu

machine  otherwise from its slightness I should have taken it for no more than a duch toy of the best sort. their spinning geer I also once saw: it consisted of a bobbin on which a small quantity of thread was wound & a kind of distaff filld with cotton from whence I conjecture that they spin by hand  as our women in Europe did before wheels were introducd & I am told still do in some parts of Europe where that improvement is not receiv'd  their Loom I also saw  it had this merit in preference to ours that the web was not stretchd on a frame but only extended by a peice of wood at each end  round one of which the cloth was rolld as the threads were round the other  I had not an opportunity of seing it usd so cannot at all describe it  only can say that it appeard very simple  much more so than ours & that the shuttle was as long as the breadth of the web which was about 1/2 a yard  in all probability from this circumstance & the unsteadiness of a web fixd to nothing the work must go on very slow  that they dyed their own cloth we first guessd by the indigo which

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