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3. Cost and Price. The ordinary wages 

 for the whole labour of raifing, breaking, 

 filling, and drawing, is i8d. to 20 d. a chal- 

 dron. 



At Malton, the labour, if taken by the 

 grofs, is about i8d. the price of lime-kiln 

 coalst with carriage from the keels to the 

 kiln, about 14s. a chaldron (of thirty-two 

 bufhels) the produce better than three for one. 

 The whole ccji about 6 s. x.\\q felling fries 7 s. 

 a chaldron. 



At Pickering, the labour is 20 d. a chal- 

 dron : the price of " moor-coals" and car- 

 riage 16 s. of " Malton coals" and carriage 

 18 s. The produce, if fufficiently burnt, three 

 to one. The mean coji is therefore about 

 7 s. 6d. the felling price 8 s. a chaldron. The 

 building and repair of kilns ; the wear of 

 tools •, the value of the ftone in the quarry ; 

 and, in fome cafes, the carriage of it from 

 thence to the kiln, arc drawbacks upon the 



profits 



eyes ; which arc in this cafe of no other ufe than to 

 kindle at, and to admit a fupply of air. Thofe kilns 

 are much lefs cxpenfive than the kilns o( thh Diflrift; 

 and more convenient. But query, Do they give as 

 much heat with the fame quantity of coals as a talle; 

 pore cylindrical kiln } 



