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that they

had

pit-coal,

or that

looms were

improved,

unless

Watt and

Stephenson

had taught

them to

work

force-pumps

and

power-looms,

by steam.

The great

strides

were all

taken

within the

last

hundred

years. The

Life of

Sir Robert

Peel, who

died, the

other day,

the model

Englishman,

very

properly

has, for a

frontispiece

a drawing

of the

spinning-jenny,

which wove

the web of

his

fortunes.

Hargreaves

invented

the

spinning-jenny,

and died

in a

workhouse.

Arkwright