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even far beyond his most sanguine expectations ; and, 

 as a strong proof of the utility of the plan, he informed 

 me that his next-door neighbour, who is a dyer by pro- 

 fession, and who at first was strongly prejudiced against 

 these innovations, had adopted them, and is now con- 

 vinced that they are real improvements. 



Mr. Gott assured me that he had no doubt but they 

 would be adopted by every dyer in Great Britain in the 

 course of a very few years. 



The dyeing-house of Messrs. Gott and Company, 

 which is situated on the ground floor of the principal 

 building of the manufactory, is very spacious, and con- 

 tains a great number of coppers, of different sizes ; and as 

 these vessels, some of which are very large, are distributed 

 about promiscuously, and apparently without any order 

 in their arrangement, in two spacious rooms, each 

 copper appearing to be insulated, and to have no con- 

 nection whatever with the others, all of them to- 

 gether form a very singular appearance. 



The rooms are paved with flat stones, and the brims 

 of all the coppers, great and small, are placed at 

 the same height (about three feet) above the pavement. 

 Some of these coppers contain upwards of 1800 gallons ; 

 and they are all heated by steam from one steam-boiler ', 

 which is situated in a corner of one of the rooms, 

 almost out of sight. 



The horizontal tubes, which serve to conduct the 

 steam from the boiler to the coppers, are suspended 

 just below the ceiling of the rooms : they are made, 

 some of lead and some of cast-iron, and are from 

 four to five inches in diameter ; but when I saw them, 

 they were naked, or without any covering to confine 

 the heat. On my observing to Mr. Gott that coverings 



