456 Saddle and Sii'loin. 



in which merely the tools are made ; and its neatness 

 is such that we seem to fancy that we have some pic- 

 ture catalogue in our hands, and have just arrived at 

 " Interior of a Dutch Smithy." We also marked the 

 mode in which the pattern is withdrawn from the 

 mould by machinery, without any of the risk which 

 attends the handling of even the most experienced 

 and skilful workman. The boiler-shop is a most 

 spacious apartment, 255 feet long by 190 feet broad, 

 where punching and shearing machines are doing their 

 work with a gusto which seems almost human. 

 After a little more experience of the clatter of ham- 

 mers and the deep, dull thud of the steam rivetters, 

 we are glad to change to the " lagging" house, and 

 witness the casing of engines with felt, wood and iron ; 

 and then we quit the birthplace of these green-with- 

 chocolate wheeled monsters for the painting-shop, 

 where the thrashing machines are receiving their drab- 

 and-red facings. Four are there, radiant with paint, 

 and destined for England, Wallachia, Bessarabia, and 

 Bohemia. Their framework, when intended for use 

 in Europe, is composed of oak, and when in Egypt, 

 India, &c, of teakwood. In the lighter departments 

 hard by, the workmen are busy with tin cups for 

 corn elevators, and wire riddles ; and anon we are 

 among huge barrels of raw linseed oil and other de- 

 lights of the kind, which would no doubt make a 

 Russian or a Laplander desire a tasting order on the 

 spot. 



One side of the works is pretty nearly devoted to 

 shops for wood-drying, when it has come in from its 

 weather probation in the yard ; and upon each stack 

 of wood, oak, ash, elm, and pine in the yard, the date 

 of stacking, the quantity, and the thickness are 

 marked.* The oak which is intended for the spokes 



* Situated in the centre of the woodyard is the woodshop, where are 

 vertical, circular, and band saws ; tenoning, mortising, and planing 



