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THE WEDGWOODS. 



but it is most especially " interesting" as showing the stone 

 steps those to the left hand by which Josiah Wedgwood 

 constantly ascended to his counting-house, and the bridge 

 by which he crossed the yard from his office to the ware- 

 rooms and works. 



The whole of this part of the works has an air of vene- 

 rable age about it, and the very atmosphere seems to breathe 

 of the presence, as it were, of the master mind of its first 

 and greatest owner. But not only in this part of the works. 

 The same .remark will apply to nearly every portion of the 

 place, and perhaps more especially so to the engine and 



THE 



ETRUHIA. 



engine-house, which have an appearance of antiquity about 

 them possessed by no others in the kingdom. The steam- 

 engine to which I refer was one of the first made by James 

 Watt, and has worked uninterruptedly since his day to the 

 present hour, and still does its work as well and " sweetly," 

 as the engineers say, as ever. It is a condensing engine 

 of forty-horse power, and its great curiosity consists in its 



