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 a clear and diftinct account of thefc articles, 

 would require infinitely more time than 

 any one can fuppofe a farming obferver 

 could give them. 



In the plated work fome hundreds of 

 hands are employed ; the men's pay extends 

 from 9 x. a week to 60 /. a year: In works 

 of curiofity, it muft be fuppofed that dex- 

 terous hands are paid very great wages. 

 Girls earn 4 s. 6 d. and 5 s. a week ; fome 

 even to 9/. No men are employed that 

 earn lefs than 9 s. Their day's work, in- 

 cluding the hours of ceffation, is thirteen. 

 In the cutlery branch are feveral fub- 

 divifions, fuch as razor, knife, fciffar, lan- 

 cets, Hems, &c. &C. Among thefe the 

 grinders make the greater! earnings ; 18 s. 

 lgs. and 20 J. a week, are common among 

 them ; but this height of wages is owing 

 in a great meafure to the danger of the 

 employment ; for the grindftones turn with 

 fuch amazing velocity, that by the mere 

 force of motion they now and then fly in 

 pieces, and kill the men at work on them. 

 Thefe accidents ufed to be more common 

 than they are at prefent ; but of late years 

 they have invented a method of chaining 

 down an iron over the (lone on which the 

 men work in fuch a manner, that in cafe 

 of the abovementioned accidents, the 

 pieces of (tone can only fly forwards ; and 

 and not upwards ; and yet men bv the force 



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