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or six in number, were included in the recognition. Burke's account of the English settlements in America, begins with Jamaica, and proceeds through the West India Islands. There were also English settlements on the Continent, Canada — and Nova Scotia,--which it was necessary to exclude from the Treaty, by an enumeration of tnt, the music of the spinning-wheel was heard at every fire-side in town and country. The raw materials were wool, flax, and cotton, the last imported from the West Indies. The colonial system of Great Britain before the Revolution forbade the establishment of any other than household manufactures. Soon after the Revolution, cotnd and Massachusetts, and the infant manufacture was encouraged by State duties on the imported fabric. The raw material was still derived exclusively from the West Indies. Its culture in this country was so extremely limited and so little known, that a small parcel sent from the United States to Liverpool in 1784 was seized at t