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They manufacture anchors as high as 

 70 cwt. carriages of cannon, hoes, ipades, 

 axes, hooks, chains, &c. &c. 



In general their greateft work is for ex- 

 portation, and are employed very conlider- 

 ably by the Eaji India Company : They 

 have of late had a prodigious artillery de- 

 mand from that Company. 



During the war their bufinefs was ex- 

 tremely great : It was worfe upon the 

 peace ; but for anchors and mooring 

 chains the demand thefe laft 7 or 8 years 

 has been very regular and fpirited. Their 

 bulinefs in general, for fome time paft, has 

 not been equal to what it was in the war. 



As to the machines for accelerating feve- 

 ral operations in the manufadure, the cop- 

 per rollers for fqueezing bars into hoops, 

 and the fciflars for cutting bars of iron — 

 the turning cranes for moving anchors into 

 and out of the fire — the beating hammer, 

 lifted by the cogs of a wheel -, thefe are 

 machines of manifefl utility, fimple in their 

 conftrud:ion, and all moved by water. 

 But I cannot conceive the neceflity of their 

 executing fo much of the remaining work 

 by manual labour. I obferved eight ftout 

 fellows hammering an anchor in fpots, 



which 



