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APPENDI:x. ~65ceived. This assortment, including many dther minutiro, i3 that for the Segoviattmarket.Of tHe Cledning.In hot water.!st process of wâshing-"5 or more men-4 denomÎnations of laboure1's.Sld. Draining-on frames.Sd.~ Collecting.4th. vVatering in cold water and treading-ll men-4 denominations of laboureur5th. Treading andextracting from the water.6th. Drainin~-several hands.{j,7th. Taking it out to the field to dtY in the sun, taking care, if any dew gets on it,nott t'emove it uutil the dew is dried off, as the wool is stained thereby.Forty thdusand persons are employed inthe caré of five millions of sheep.iProèess,!! TYashing.A boïler, weight forty arrobas, ~h,ence boiling water l'uns into the tinos, or pits,which are breast-deep, and hohieach forty arrobas of wool, which isput in by layers,the bottom. 0!1e 'being a yard or ·thereabout in depth, the othe1's less. As the waiercools, or is cooled,first four men, wQjch mlmber is ultimately increased to ten forthe same purpose, enter to tread the wool, which, when trodden sufficiently, istàken out and put on draining-frames of nine feet by four and a half, with intervalswhichaboutadmit the edge df a crown-piece, whereon the wool islaid after beingfirst drained, and squeezed by 7han~1. Being drained, it is pitted in cold water,in a vat of four feet and a haif and one deep (una te1,tia); here it is trodden byort themselves lean or hold on a cross-placed stick, whence thelike a tnill-shoot,wj.dening at thetnouth :trom half a yard toa yard. At its hence.entering the canal, itis again met byaman, wi'dughtwiththe feet,andoy this man leaningon theedges ofthêcanal, whichis waist;.deep. This process, is repeated on it by four or ':live persons succcssively;arter ,:vhiçh it is taken out piece-meal,by others, who lay it on the fiat edges of the ca....,·nal, whence it istaken byfour others, who lay it to drain on stone shelves; whenceit18 againtaken and laid in lines or beds a yard broad, and the height of a man, againstthe wall ;paraUel to which othel's are made, the water draining off, and runningtherefrom bygutters.vVhere the canal evacmttes isplaced a net to catch what would pasa off aml,be losLAt night il is laid out in the drying-ground~VOL. II.