Excerpt from The Cotton Trade of Great Britain: Its Rise, Progress, and Present Extent, Based Upon the Most Carefully Digested Statistics, Furnished by the Several Government Departments, and Most Eminent Commercial Firms A Great Britain - 4the mechanical inventions of Wyatt, Paul, Kay, Hargreaves, Ark. Watt} their causes and efi'ects - and the progress Of the trade to the close of the, eighteenth century. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.