.

Wadding, cotton, 77.

Warping machine, 177.

Water Frame, 131, 162.

West Indies, cotton production in, 18, 63.

Whitney, Eli. 78.

Winding, 111.

Winding Chain, 156.

Winding frame, 182.

Wyatt, John, 113, 121.

Z.

Zahn, Johannes, 13.

THE END.

Transcriber's Notes:

Passages in italics are indicated by _underscore_.

Passages in bold are indicated by =bold=.

The following misprints have been corrected:
"a" added (page 10; orignial text reads: "...thread ready alike
for the sewing machine or the needle of seamstress."
"aecording" corrected to "according" (page 36)
"produed" corrected to "produced" (page 52)
"qnantities" corrected to "quantities" (page 63)
"reamains" corrected to "remains" (page 121)
"rapily" corrected to "rapidly" (page 125)
"to to" corrected to "to" (page 133)
"correet" corrected to "correct" (page 157)

Additional spacing is intentional to indicate both the end of a
quotation and the beginning of a new paragraph or to represent
a section break as presented in the original text.

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