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value of all the articles made of brass and copper is 
the number of per- 
the value of the*steel 
wheels, locking-springs; hour, minute, and second hands. 
in springs, chains for movements, and watch-cases, 
part of the original manufacture, but are now 
made here. All the branches of this curious and inge- 
nious trade are, however, gradually removing to Liver- 
pool, in the same manner as the fustian trade, which 
a in Bolton, has centered in Manchester. The 
and watch-movement makers occupy small farms 
in conjunction with their man ing business: in 
this circumstance accep | the weavers about 
. A manufactory of watch-spring chains 
has been established, within these few years, at Christ- 
church in Hampshire, in which many are em= 
ed. 
factures of considerable im It is made with 
the greatest taste, and in the greatest vari , at the 
towns and that 
the a igh that it 
se tees 
he for is manuracture, ie hroaght principal ipally 
the isle of Purbeck in Dorsetshire, and from De- 
i ; the flint from Greenhithe in Kent, whence 
thousand tons are shi annually: these, and 
w materials, are also ht from Cornwall, 
re, Sussex, and Wales. It is computed that 
of shipping are annually employed 
ials to Liverpool. When the 
was , about 30,000 tons were em- 
eee orring manufactured articles to the 
Jnited States ; nearly as many tons in carrying 
them. cosstwise, besides what is sent by the 
‘The number of ‘exported from Liverpool, be- 
tween 1803 1811, varied from 25,000 to 47,000. 
The ion of the district is from 38,000 
to 40, of which about 15,000 or 20,000 are em- 
ployed in this manufacture. Women and children are 
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will probably not be over-rated at L.2,000,000 ; nor 
the number of persons employed at between 35,000 
and 40,000. 
The manufacture of glass is of very 
this country, having been introduced, it is said, about 
the end of the 7th century ; but it was not till 900 
importance 
t in the year 1670, manufacturers 
from Venice ; and within 15 years af- 
terwards, the French refugees, to whom we are in~ 
monopolies. The 
1773 forms an important era in the hi 
i manufacture. perenne 
een but 
did it with more exactness and ition. Cast plate- 
glass, with concave and convex mirrors, are now made 
superior to any imported from the Continent. The 
works cover about 20 acres of ground ; and nearly 300 
persons are usually employed.in ey i of 
melting, casti lowing, polishing, &c. Plate-glass is 
also made seni pen age Liverpool, the. Plate« 
Glass Company having been incorporated only for 24 
ears. 
: Manufactories of glass of all the other kinds are nu- 
underland, and Hartley-pans, are a great many 
houses for making crown, common w Sa flint 
glass, and_ green bottles, Stourbridge, Warrington, 
and several other places, have also their manufactures 
of glass of various kinds, Near Darlington, there is a 
date in Glass. 
