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Captain Cook and Dr. Solander went on the 27th to infpeft the bay, when the do&or was not a little furprifed to find the nadves in pofleffion of a boy's top, which they knew how to fpin by whipping it, and he purchafed it out of oiriofity.
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Ths poorer inhabitants fpin wool for the Ch erasco, a rirVf capital of a prinri - dothiers of Scrond.
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It is curious to obferve the expedition and facility with which the women and children fpin the efparto thread.
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They then climbed up into rofemary bullies, fixed for that purpofe between the fhelves, and began to fpin.
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Which like the painted daughters of the plain Ne toil, ne fpin, ne ftain their filken pride With care, or forrow, fith withouten pain.
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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It is at prefent contrived to fpin cotton i but it may be made 10 fpin fine carded wooL O 4 Dlf -
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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It is at prefent contrived to fpin cotton j but it may be made to fpin fine carded wool..
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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Which like the painted daughters of the plain Ne toil, ne fpin, ne llain their filken pride With care, or forrow, fith withouten pain.
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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Oh, my foul's joy I Your father muft, he will confcnt j but then he may forget the eager wifhes, the ardent hopes of youth, and fpin out precious time, with - tedious, mortifying, cold delays.
The miscellaneous works of Richard Linnecar, of Wakefield 1789
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The poor women, who fpin the wool, muft work very hard to earn above four grana a day.
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