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have much carriage in a regular track, that 

 greatly wants this improvement, which 

 tends fo confiderably to the lowering the 

 expences of carriage. 



About five miles from Newcajile are the 

 iron works, late Crawley s, fuppofed to be 

 the greateft maniifadory of the kind in 

 Europe. Several hundred hands are em- 

 ployed in it, infomuch that 20,000/. a 

 year is paid in wages. They earn from is, 

 to 2s. 6d. ^ day ; and fome of the foremen 

 fo high as 200/. a year. The quantity of 

 iron they work up is very great, employ- 

 ing three (hips to the Baltic, that each 

 make ten voyages yearly, and bring 70 

 tons at a time, which amounts to 2100 

 tons, befides 500 tons more freighted 

 in others. They ufe a good deal of Ame- 

 rican iron, which is as good as any SwediJJj, 

 and for fome purpofes much better. They 

 would ufe more of it, if larger quantities 

 were to be had, but they cannot get it. 

 A circumftance the perfon did not fuffi- 

 ciently explain, but which, in the mere 

 outline, is worthy of remark. 



They ufe annually 7000 bolls of coals, 

 at 16 bulhels each. 



They 



