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It is marked " Belfast, 1707." Through Messrs. Patterson and 

 Swanston I learned of a second, figured by Benn in his history of 

 Belfast, and marked " Belfast, 1724."— M. E*R. These authori- 

 ties, and others who have examined the shoe, question its having 

 been made in Belfast, as it is identical with some old Scotch and 

 English wares. 



DUBLIN. 



In connection with the brick trade of this county, Dr. Frazer 

 has called our attention to a lease of part of Eathfarnham, dated 

 14th January, 1679, in which there is a covenant giving his family 

 power " to dig up any part of said premises, and to burn bricks 

 thereon." 



[In the enlargement of the "Westland-row railway station the facing of the walls is 

 composed of perforated Bridgewater brick of first quality, and the hearting of Cardigan 

 bricks of second quality ; except in some of the walls that had not to carry much weight, 

 where there is a Bridgewater facing and granite backing. In the arching are red Kings- 

 court bricks (Thompson, Bros.), and Kingstown bricks of second quality. For the 

 brickwork in cement in the piers for the roof and the columns were used first quality 

 Chester fire-bricks, about 2f inches thick. In the City of Dublin Junction Kailway 

 (Loop Line), the principal bricks were buff, from Torrington, North Devon, and Aston 

 Hall ; dark-brown fire-bricks from Chester, and Farnley brick with enamelled faces in 

 places where light was required to be reflected ; in the Loop Line enamelled bricks 

 were used in the St. George's-quay abutment. 



At Kingscourt some of the bricks are pressed, while others are wire-cut. The 

 pressed brick used in the facings were of good quality, and those used in places on the 

 Wicklow line for small works appear to have stood well. The wire-cut, or impressed 

 bricks, have sometimes a tendency to split vertically, or across the brick, when set on 

 their proper bed : this happened in many instances, as they broke across, although well 

 flushed in mortar. 



In the case of a brick splitting horizontally the fracture is not nearly so injurious 

 as when it splits vertically. In the first case the superincumbent weight will generally 

 keep the pieces in position ; but if there is a vertical crack it is much more likely to 

 cause a settlement. The Kingstown bricks were used at the Merrion Station, Dublin 

 and Kingstown Railway, in a parapet wall next the sea ; but whether the sea air 

 affected them or not, they have become greatly pitted on the face, and have deterio- 

 rated considerably. {T. B. Grierson.)~] 



WEXFORD. 



Killiane Pottery and Delph Manufactory. — At the end of the 

 seventeenth century, during the Cromwellian settlement, a Quaker, 

 Jonathan Chamberleyne, from Staffordshire, established a pottery 

 in Great Killian, on Wexford Harbour. It was first for coarse 



