Note 223-2 — Chapter I

Fregier, Die gefährlichen Klassen, translated 1840, I, 2, 38. In Yorkshire it is said that woolen rags to the amount of £52,000,000 a year are manufactured into useful articles. (Tooke, Wool-Production, 196.) Compare The Use of Refuse: Quart. Rev., April, 1868. On the ancient Greek ragpickers the so-called σπερμολόγοις,[TN 49] see St. John, The Hellenes, III, 91; on the Roman Centonariis: Cato, R. R., 135; Columella, R. R., I, 8, 9; Marquardt, II, 476, V, 2, 187.