380. On the Manufacture of Tin-plate. 
French people. This eminent man, whose 
mind was cast in amould very similar to that 
of Mr. Yarranton, but who possessed more 
science, never relinquished any thing which 
he undertook; and accordingly, notwithstand- 
ing the innumerable difficulties which he had 
to encounter, at length succeeded in acquiring 
such a knowledge of the principles of the 
manufacture, as enabled him to instruct se- 
veral people in the vicinity of Paris, in an 
art which, until then, had never ieninis 
tised in that country. 
Soon after the time of which I am speak- 
ing, several similar manufactories were erec- 
ted in Great Britain, and now the establish- 
ments of this nature are so numerous and ex- 
tensive in many parts of these kingdoms, 
that the manufacture of tin-plate is become 
of great national importance, and more than 
one hundred thousand boxes of these plates 
are annually exported. 
January 12th, 1818. 
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