Excerpt from The Lowell Directory: Containing Names of the Inhabitants, Their Occupations, Places of Business, and Dwelling Houses; With the Streets and Corporations; Town Officers, Public Offices, Banks, Incorporated Companies, Societies, and Much Other Useful Information; To Which Is Ann<br><br>The Hamilton Manufacturing company has a cap ital Of dollars; three large brick factories, containing Spindles, 500 looms, and employs 900 operatives, 700 of whom are females. It con sumes about 300 bales of cotton, manufactures 70 000 yards per week, or yards per annum. Two ofthe mills make twilled goods, the other one plain. There are also bleach and print works be longing to this company, in which part of the goods are converted into calicoes and fancy articles.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.