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being worked with the " sun and planet " motion, instead 

 of the " crank." It is the only engine of this construction 

 in existence, and therefore possesses an unusual amount of 

 interest. 



The third illustration is the " Black Works," the first 

 portion of the manufactory which was erected. In this part 

 it will be remembered that the Portland Vase was produced, 

 in it Flaxman worked, and in it most of the exquisitely 

 beautiful ornamental wares have been, from the first day 

 of its erection down to the present, produced. 



Of the village of Etruria I have before said a few words. 

 It consists of one long straight street, running down from 

 the canal bridge, at the works, to the railway station, with 

 some shorter side streets, and contains, I believe, about 

 two hundred houses, almost entirely inhabited by Messrs. 

 Wedgwood's workpeople and their families. The houses 

 are far better than is generally the case ; and it is pleasant 

 to add that the people, as a rule, have a more comfortable, 

 happy, and " cared for " look than is usual in the Potteries. 

 Etruria has its church, its dissenting places of worship, and 

 its schools, which are principally supported by the Messrs. 

 Wedgwood. It has also its wharf, its " Etruscan Bone 

 Mills," its foundry, its immense iron-works, its newly- 

 erected forge, and many other important features ; and it 

 has, too, its village inns, its post-office, and its hucksters' 

 shops. I have said that there are village inns at Etruria : 

 two of these, the " Bridge Inn " and " Etruria Inn," are close 

 to the works. The first, the " Bridge Inn," kept by Mrs. 

 Jones, a worthy matronly old lady, who all her life- time 

 has been connected with the Wedgwoods, as nurse and 

 otherwise, closely adjoins the works, to the left of the view 

 of the front in -the engraving just given, and here the 

 visitor will find the old spirit of Wedgwood pervading the 

 whole place. In one room Sir Joshua Reynolds' beautiful 

 portrait of Josiah Wedgwood the fine mezzotint by S. W. 

 Reynolds is faced by photographs of the present genera- 

 tions of the family ; and in another, the same portrait of 



