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the black glazed ware ; at the fame place there is alfo 

 a manufacture of (larch, and fotne attempts were made 

 alfo to introduce a fimilar fabric to that of Wedgwood; 

 this has been given up for fomc time. Very near this 

 is a glafs-houfe, where all kinds of flint-glafs are made, 

 and cut, equal to any imported; this is carried on by 

 MefTrs. Edwards, who likewife have an extenfive foun- 

 dery, and who are, I underftand, about eftabliftiing one 

 at Newry. There is another foundery lately let up by 

 a company, at no great diftance from this. At theie 

 different manufactories machinery of every defcription 

 is made, upon the mofl approved plans, with all the 

 fubordinate articles of boilers, pots, pans, griddles, &c. 

 A manufacture of bottle-glafs was fome years ago fet 

 up, but, for what reafon I know not, has been flopped. 

 At Newry there is a confiderable eftabliftiment for 

 making fpades, (hovels, fcythes, and all kinds of pots 

 and covers of hammered iron. Nails are made in all 

 the towns, and in the village of Newtown-Breda, 

 within three miles of Belfafl, there are many hands 

 kept in conftant employment to fupply the demands of 

 that town in this article. At Dromaragh, near Hills- 

 borougll, there lives a celebrated maker of hackles; 

 whether there is any other perfon in the county of that 

 trade I do not know; and at Kilwarlin, in the vicinity 

 of the fame town, is a celebrated maker of bafkets; 

 every thing in this line, from the (Irongeft clothes- 

 balket to the moft elegant fervices for deferts, is made 



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