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castings a week. They have made such heavy articles as the 

 columns for the Solway viaduct, and castings for some of the 

 principal bridges in India, Italy, and Spain, besides tubular 

 telegraph posts for South America ; and a great business is done 

 in making register stoves, hat and umbrella stands, gi rden seats, 

 verandahs, iron stairs, &c. 



Other ironworks on the banks of the canal are Burnbank, 

 Gowanbank, Grahamston, Parkhouse, Camelon, the Union 

 Foundry, the Port Downie, and the Forth and Clyde Ironworks. 

 There are also the Abbots, the Gael, and the Etna Foundries, 

 and, close to the branch of the Xorth British Eailway at 

 Grahamston, the Callander and the Vulcan Ironworks. There 

 is also the extensive engineering establishment of Messrs Black- 

 adder. 



There are at least thirty-four coal pits in the county, the 

 principal of which are in the districts of Bannockburn, Auchen- 

 bowie, Denny, Lennoxtown, Kinnaird, Falkirk. liedding, and 

 Slamannan. The number of men employed is above 1800. 



Calico printing is carried on in the west of the county, 

 especially by Messrs Pi. Dalglish, Falconer, & Co., at Lennox 

 Mill, Campsie. Every description of calico printing is there in 

 operation, from the finest muslin to the coarsest calico worn by the 

 pariahs of India. Lennox Mill contains seven printing cylinders 

 and 200 tables. The water-power is equal to about 20 horses, 

 and the steam-engine is 30 horse-power. The heating and 

 dyeing are all done by steam, and for these purposes about 250 

 horse-power of steam is employed. About 30 tons of coal are 

 consumed daily. The stock of copper rollers amounts to 1500, 

 and weighs about 155,000 lbs. The works give employment to 

 545 hands, and 250,000 pieces can be produced annually. There 

 are calico works also at Blanefield, five miles from Campsie to 

 the west. 



At Alloa, Stirling, and Bannockburn there is yarn spinning 

 and woollen manufacture. In Alva there are nine spinning 

 mills employed on yarns for making shawls, tartans, and tweeds. 

 About 220 persons are employed. The weaving of shawls, 

 handkerchiefs, plaids, and shirtings is the principal trade of 

 the village, and gives employment to 700 journeymen and 100 

 apprentices in the busy season, besides 500 or GOO women 

 employed in winding, twisting, and finishing, and a number of 

 boys. In Stirling there are woollen mills ; and at P)annockburn 

 are two extensive mills owned by Messrs William Wilsun and 

 Sons, one of these includes spinning, dyeing, and the weaving of 

 carpets, tweeds, and tartans, in which fourteen carding machines 

 are employed; in the other, carpets only are manufactured. About 

 500,000 lbs. of wool are used yearly, and 180 hands are emjiloyed. 



Manufactories of chemical })roducts are numerous in the 

 county. The works of tliL- Hurlet and Campsie Company were 



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