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LETTER III. 



T^Otherhdm is famous for its iron works, 

 ***■ of which it contains one very large 

 one, belonging to Mr. Walker, and one or 

 two lmaller. Near the town are two col- 

 lieries, out of which the iron ore is dug, as 

 well as the coals to work it with ; thefe col- 

 lieries and works employ together near 500 

 hands. The ore is here worked into metal 

 and then into bar iron, and the bars fent into 

 Sheffield to be worked, and to all parts of 

 the country; this is one branch of their 

 bufinefs. Another is the foundery, in 

 which they run the ore into metal, pigs, 

 and then cafr. it into all forts of boilers, 

 pans, plough- mares, &c. &c. &c. The 

 forgemen work by weight, and earn from 

 8 j. to 20 s. a week, but 12J. or 14 s. the 

 average ; the foundery men are paid by 

 the week, from js. to 10 s. No boys are 

 employed younger than 14, fuch from 3 j. 

 toip. a week. In the collieries, the men 

 earn from 7 s. to 9 s. a week. There are 

 few women employed ; and only in piling- 

 old bits of fcrap iron (which are brought 

 to Rotberham by way of Hull from Holland, 

 London, &c.) into the form of final! pyra- 

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