CHAP. T. 



SMEATON'S BOYHOOD AND EDUCATION. 



myself for a mechanical employment, and a few years 

 younger than he was, I could not but view his works 

 with astonishment. He forged his iron and steel, and 

 melted his metal. He had tools of every sort for working 

 in wood, ivory, and metals. He had made a lathe, by 

 which he cut a perpetual screw in brass, a thing little 

 known at that day, and which, I believe, was the inven- 

 tion of Mr. Henry Hindley, of York, with whom I 

 served my apprenticeship. Mr. Hindley was a man of 

 the most communicative disposition, a great lover of 

 mechanics, and of the most fertile genius. Mr. Smeaton 

 soon became acquainted with him, and spent many a 

 night at Mr. Hindley's house till daylight, conversing 

 on these subjects." 



fWHITKIRK, NEAR LEEDS. 

 [By E. M. Wimperis, after a Sketch by T. Sutcliffe.] 



