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 The flints are firft ground in mills, and 

 the clay prepared by breaking, walhing, 

 and lifting, and then they a-e mixed in the 

 requifite proportions. The flints are bought 

 firft by the people about the country ; and 

 by them burnt and ground, and fold to the 

 manufacturers by the peck. 



It is then laid in large quantities, on kilns, 

 to evaporate the moifture ; but this is a nice 

 work, as it mud not be too dry : Next it is 

 beat with large wooden hammers, and then 

 is in order for throwing, and is moulded into 

 the forms in which it is to remain : This is 

 the moft difficult work in the whole manu- 

 facture. A boy turns a perpendicular wheel, 

 which, by means of thongs, turns a fmall 

 horizontal one, juft before the thrower, 

 with fuch velocity, that it twirls round the 

 lump of clay he lays on it, into any form he 

 directs it with his fingers. 



The earnings of the people are various. 

 Grinders, j s. per week. 

 Warners and breakers, 8 s. 

 Throwers, 9 s. to 1 2 s. 

 Engine lath men, ioj. to I2J.* 

 Handlers, who fix hands, and other kinds 



of finiihers, for adding fprigs, horns, 



&c. 9 J", to 12 s. 

 Gilders, 



Men, 1 2 s. 



Women, 7 s. (yd. 



* Mr. IVedgwoodvras the firft perfon who introduced 

 machine into a po'rcvlaine manufacture. 



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