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many thoufands ; the earnings of the r - 

 are from is. to 4-f. a day, and their firing. 

 The coal waggon roads, from the pits to the 

 water, are great works, carried over all forts 

 of inequalities of ground, fo far as the 

 diftance of nine or ten miles. The track of 

 the wheels are marked with pieces of timber 

 let into the road, for the wheels of the wag- 

 gons to run on, by which means one horfe 

 is enabled to draw, and that with eafe, 

 fifty or fixty buihels of coals. There are 

 many other branches of bufinefs that have 

 much carriage in a regular track, that great- 

 ly want this improvement, which tends fo 

 conliderably to the lowering the expences of 

 carnage. 



About five miles from Newcajik are the 

 iron v/orks, late Crawley's, fuppofed to be 

 among the greateft manufactories of the 

 kind in Europe. Several hundred hands are 

 employed in it, infomuch that 20,000/. a 

 year is paid in wages. They earn from 1 s. 

 to is. bd. a day; and fome of the foremen 

 fo high as 200/. a year. The quantity of 

 iron they work up is very great, employing 

 three mips to the Baltic, that each make ten 

 voyages yearly, and bring feventy tons at a 

 time, which amount to twenty-one hundred 

 tons, befides five hundred tons more freighted 

 in others. They ufe a good deal of America?! 

 iron, which is as good as any Swedi/h, and 



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