DUNDEE. This important town, the third in rank among the manufacturing towns of Scotland, has deep shipping-quays on the Tay which accommodate a large amount of export and import trade. In 1815 the reno vation and extension of the harbour gave an impulse to its manufactures and commerce, which has led to its present state of prosperity. The harbour now consists of three wet docks, two tide-harbours of large extent, a graving dock, a patent slip, yards for shipbuilding, &c.
The chief manufactures of Dundee consist of the spinning of flax, the weaving of linen, and the making of cordage and ropes. Besides the fine linen, a large quantity of sail-cloth is woven.
Steam-vessels ply regularly between Dundee and Perth, Newport, Leith, Glasgow, London, and other places. About 350 vessels belong to the town, some of large tonnage ; and about 4000 vessels enter and leave the port yearly, engaged in coasting and foreign com merce.
From a return recently laid before Parlia ment, it appears that in 1850 the following were the statistics of the factories for flax and linen goods in the county of Forfar, in which Dundee is the chief manufacturing town.
There were 85 flax-spinning factories, with 135,311 spindles,2559 horse-power for moving machinery, and 12,365 persons employed, of whom about f1000 were females ; there were 11 factories for flax-weaving, with 1347 power looms, 219 horse-power moving-force, and 1888 persons employed, of whom 1500 were females : and 5 factories both for spinning and weaving flax, with 22,686 spindles, 240 power-looms, 345 horse-power, and 2011 per ' sons employed, of whom nearly 1400 were females. The cotton, woollen, and mill facto ries in Dundee are hut small in number.
All the chief varieties of Dundee manufac tures in flax will be represented at the Indus trial Exhibition.