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 bf water, to fteep for eight or ten clays, after 

 which they run it ofF, and fleep it again as 

 much longer ; this renders it liquid. It is 

 then run down from the rock in troughs 

 into a ciftern at a diftance, and from that 

 by other troughs into the boihng-houfe, 

 where it falls into the boilers, which are of 

 lead upon an butfide of iron : In thefe it 

 boils four and twenty hours, after which 

 they run it off into a fettler, and then into 

 coolers for four or five days ; here they let 

 off the liquor, and the fettlings are the allom 

 in a coarfe ftate. This they boil again till 

 it is thick, and run it into hogfheads in its 

 laft ftate, when it is fit for the market ; a 

 common felling price is 1 8 /. per ton. The 

 men are in general paid by the day, at i s. 

 4 d. \ but if they work by meafure, they 

 earn is. 6d» 



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