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Modellers, apprentices, one of ioo/. a year. 

 PrefTers, 8 s. to 9 s. 

 * Painters, 10 s. to 12 s. 

 Moulders in plaifter of Paris, 8 s. 



In general the men earn from 7 s. to 1 2 j„ 

 Women 5/. to 8 s. Boys, chiefly apprentices, 

 but 2. s. a week, the firlt year, and a rife of 

 3 d. per annum afterwards. Before they are 

 apprentices 2 s. 9 t/. ^r week, as they then 

 learn nothing. But few girls. 



We principally owe the pofleffion of this 

 moil: flourishing manufacture to the inven- 

 tive genius of Mr. Wedgwood; who not 

 only originally introduced the prefent cream 

 coloured ware, but has lince been the in- 

 ventor of every improvement ; the other 

 manufacturers being little better than mere 

 imitators j which is not a fortunate circum- 

 stance, as it is unlucky to have the fate of 

 fo important a manufacture depend upon 

 the thread of one man's life : However, he 

 has lately entered into partnerfhip with a 

 man of fenfe and fpirit, who will have tafte 

 enough to continue in the inyenting plan, 

 and not fuffer, in cafe of accidents, the ma- 

 nufacture to decline, 



1 took the opportunity of being at Bur- 

 Jlem, to view the amazing works carrying 

 on at Harecafile. The navigation I men- 

 tioned in defcribing that of the Duke of 

 Bridgewater, promoted by Lord Gower, 

 and carried on by fubfcription, to join the 



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