as a Vehicle for conveying Heat. 53 



- On my vifit to Leeds the laft fummer, I waited on Mr. 

 Gott, who was then mayor of the town, and who received 

 ine with great politenefs, and mowed me the cloth halls, and 

 other euriofities of the place ; but nothing he (howed me 

 interefted me half fo much as his own truly noble manufac- 

 tory of fuperfine woollen cloths. I had leen few manufac- 

 tories fo extenfive, and none fo complete in all its parts. It 

 was burnt to the ground the year before I faw it, and had 

 jjuft been rebuilt, oh a larger fcale, and with great improve- 

 ments in almoft every one of its details. The reader may 

 eaiily conceive that I felt no fmall degree of fatisfaction on 

 going into the dyeing-houfe to find it fitted up on principles 

 which I had had fome fhare in bringing into repute, and 

 which Mr. Gott told me he had adopted in confequence of 

 the information he had acquired in the perufal of my feventh 

 Eflay. lie allured me that the experiment had anfwered, 

 even far beyond his mod fanguine expectations ; and, as a 

 itrong proof of the utility of the plan, he told me that hja 

 next door neighbour, who is a dyer by profeihon, and who, 

 at firft, was ftrongly prejudiced againft thefe innovations, has 

 lately adopted them, and is now convinced that they are real 

 improvements. Mr. Gott allured me that he had no doubt 

 but that they would be adopted by every dyer in Great Bri- 

 tain in the courfe of a very few years. 



The dycing-houfe of Meflrs. Gott and Co. which is-fitu- 

 ated on the ground floor of the principal building of the ma- 

 nufactory, is very fpacious, and contains a great number of 

 coppers of different fizes ; and as thefe vefiels, fome of which 

 are very large, are diftributed about promifcuoufly, and ap- 

 parentlv without any order in their arrangement, in two fpa- 

 cious rooms, (each copper appearing to be infulated, and to 

 have no connection whatever with the others,) all of them 

 together form a very lingular appearance. The rooms are 

 paved with flat Hones, and the brims of all the coppers, great 

 and fmall, are placed at the fame height, about three feet, 

 above the pavement. Some of thefe coppers contain upwards 

 of 1800 gallons; and they are all heated by fleam from one 

 fteam-boiler^ which is fituated in. a. corner of one of the 

 rooms. 



The horizontal tubes, which ferve to conduct the fleam 

 from the boiler to the coppers, are fufpended jufl below the 

 ceiling of the rooms : thev are made, fome of lead, and fome 

 of calt iron, and are from four to five inches in diameter; 

 but when 1 law them they were naked, or without any cover- 

 ing to confine the heat. On my obferving to Mr. Gott, that 

 coverings for them would be ufeful, he told me that it was 



D 3 intended 



