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" Scarcely any manufactures are carried on as a trade ; every branch of industry is domestic, and confined chiefly to articles of clothing, such as wadmel, or coarse cloth, gloves, mittens, and stockings. The peasants are generally ingenious, and make such... "
A Visit to Iceland: By Way of Tronyem, in the "Flower of Yarrow" Yacht, in ... - Page 287
by John Barrow - 1835 - 320 pages
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Peter Parley's Annual: A Christmas and New Year's Present for Young People..

William Martin - Children's literature - 1852 - 434 pages
...the fishery, and there are but few who can properly be called townsmen. Scarcely any manufactures are carried on as a trade ; every branch of industry is...domestic, and confined chiefly to articles of clothing, such as wadmel, or coarse cloth, gloves, mittens, and stockings. The peasants are generally ingenious,...
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The Monthly Review

Books - 1835 - 618 pages
...of tradespeople in Reikiavik and other trading establishments. " Obs . — There are no mauufactures of any kind carried on as a trade. Every branch of...iron. But Iceland is scantily supplied with metals; vesVoL.I. (1835.) No. Iv. BK tiges of iron are abundant, but if worth extracting the metal, they hate...
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The Saturday Magazine ...

1842 - 1008 pages
...sm»ll number of traders at Reikiavik, and a few other trading establishments. No manufactures are carried on as a trade. Every branch of industry is...domestic, and confined chiefly to articles of clothing ; such as wadmel or coarse cloth, gloves, mittens and stockings. The peasants are generally ingenious,...
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A Dictionary, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical: Of the ..., Volume 2

John Ramsay McCulloch - Geography - 1842 - 964 pages
...live by fishing, nearly as 3 to 1. No manufactures, of any kind, are carried on for the purpose of trade. Every branch of 'industry is domestic, and confined chiefly to articles of clothing, such as coarse cloth, gloves, mittens, stockings, &c. The peasantry supply themselves with such furniture...
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M'Culloch's Universal Gazetteer: A Dictionary ..., Volume 2, Part 1

John Ramsay McCulloch - Geography - 1844 - 576 pages
...by fishing, nearly as three to one. No manufactures, of any kind, are carried on for the purpose of trade. Every branch of industry Is domestic, and confined chiefly to articles of clothing, such as coarse cloth, gloves, mittens, stockings, ¿cc. The peasantry supply themselves with such furniture...
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A Dictionary, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, of Various ...

J. R. MacCulloch, John Ramsay M'Culloch - Geography - 1854 - 1048 pages
...fishing, nearly as 3 to 1. No manufactures, of any kind, are carried on for the purpose of trade. Kvcry branch of industry is domestic. and confined chiefly to articles of clothing, such as coarse cloth, gloves, mittens, stockings, &c. The peasantry supply themselves with such furniture...
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Peter Parley's Annual: A Christmas and New Year's Present for Young People..

William Martin - Children's literature - 1852 - 434 pages
...fishery, and there are but few who can properly be called towns-men. Scarcely any manufactures are carried on as a trade; every branch of industry is...domestic, and confined chiefly to articles of clothing, such as wadmel, or coarse cloth, gloves, mittens, and stockings. The peasants are generally ingenious,...
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