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unsteady, improving, advancing mass. And, for many years 

 to come, an old populous country like England will continue to 

 have the advantage of her, in every kind of work which de- 

 mands concentration of power, and the application of large in- 

 dividual capital. 



But in some States great progress is being made in the man- 

 ufacture of iron. Between 1850 and 1857, the quantity of pig 

 iron produced in Ohio increased from 52,000 tons to 106,000 

 tons, though even this quantity is little more than one-third 

 the annual produce of the iron-works of a single great firm m 

 Scotland 



