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there, three men were all killed at once by 

 the breaking of a rope. 



I was informed that thofe miners who 

 worked by the day, received upon an ave- 

 rage no more than fourteen pence. Others, 

 who work, by what they term the bar- 

 gain, are paid a certain fum per ton for 

 getting the ore. The mine companies 

 feem to take great care in providing for all 

 that have any concern whatever in the 

 works, for befides fupporting the poor by 

 their own voluntary donations, which are 

 now betwixt feven and eight hundred 

 pounds a year, they prevent a great num- 

 ber of the infants, of the aged and infirm, 

 from applying for relief, by giving them 

 light and eafy employment, and this is an 

 average expence of three hundred pounds 

 a year at lead, beiides furgeons and apo- 

 thecaries bills, which are feldom lefs than 

 .feven or eight hundred a year. 



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