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mids, upon round pieces of ftone, after 

 which they are fet into the furnace till they 

 become of a malleable heat, and are then 

 worked over again. 



Befides the iron manufactory, they have 

 a pottery, in which is made the white, 

 cream-coloured (Staff or djloire) and tortoife- 

 fhell earthen-ware : It employs about two 

 or three and twenty men and 40 boys ; 

 the men are paid $s. a week for day work, 

 but much is done by the piece, in which 

 cafe they all earn more, up to 15 J. a week. 

 Boys of nine or ten years old have 2 s. and 

 2 s. 6d. a week. There is alfo a very large 

 quantity of lime burnt in this town, which 

 conftantly employs about 20 hands, that 

 earn at a medium 9 s. a week. 



PROVISIONS, &c. 



Bread, per. lb. ild. Veal, - 3 </. 

 Butter, - 6 Pork, - 4 

 Beef - 3i. Cheefe, - 4 



Mutton, - 34 , Candles, - 6 

 Manufacturer's houfe-rent, from 30 s. to 



50 j- . a year. 

 Coals fold by the waggon-load, calculated 



at two ton, for ioj. 6d. 



But what gave me much greater fatif- 

 fa£tion than the iron works of Rotherham, 

 was the cabbage culture of Samuel Tucker, 

 Efq; who lives juft out of the town. This 

 fpirited and accurate cultivator has, I ap- 

 5 prebend, 



