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Mr. Lydiate near Fleet-bridge, and one Mr. 
Harrison near the Kingsbench, have wrought 
many, and they know their goodness.”’* 
In another place this interesting writer in- 
forms us that ‘“ when he was in Saxony, the 
different establishments for making tin-plates 
were very numerous, and that most of them 
belonged to the duke.’’+ “ The trade,” 
says he, “is so great, that by computation, no 
less than 80,000 men depend upon it, and 
when the plates are finished, they are sent 
by land to Lipsick, from thence to the Elbe 
river, and so down to Hamburg, and from 
thence sent by sea as far as trade is known.’’f 
* There was,” says he, “ no tin any where in 
Europe, except in Cornwall, until a Cornish 
man found tin in the mountains of Saxony, 
hear a town called Awe, where his statue is 
yet to be seen. The tin works are fixed upon 
He published schemes for the improvement of our national 
fisheries ; he made several tours through Ireland, for the 
express purpose of planting new manufactures and devi- 
sing the increase of the staple trades of that country ;— 
He made a regular survey and estimate of the expence of 
rendering the river Slane in Ireland navigable, for the 
purpose of bringing timber down to the coast for his Ma- 
jesty’s navy; and rendered many other signal services to 
his country. 
* Page 173. + Page 155. + Page 172. 
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