Note XXXII-49 — Chapter XXXII · INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS. 1800-1887.

They were known, however, from the earliest times, and the needs of the inhabitants in cotton and woollen goods, pottery, etc., were mostly supplied at home. The decline of cotton manufactures began in 1773, after the destruction of old Guat. city, and was completed when permission was given a little previous to 1799, for the importation of foreign manufactured goods. Diario, Méx., March 29, 1806; Juarros, Guat., i. 16-82, passim; Saravia, Bosq. Polít. Est., 12; Guat., Apuntam., 12, 138-9.