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for dispobing of it shuuid be ascertained. 



Similar inquiries should likewise be made concernm 

 the mineral productions of the country. It will not be 

 enough to know only the number of persons epiploycd in 

 mining operations, since the value of such lalour \aries 

 exceedingly in different countries. It was ?^- led at the 

 meeting of the British Association in 



1844, thai 





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workman empioyed in toe coal-mines of France raised no 



,ge tliajn no tons iii uie y^'ar^ wliue tL 



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was 253 tons. 



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four limes that made in France, while the number of 

 persons employed for the purpose is actually greater m 

 France than in Endand : the numbers actually so em- 



in France, 47,830, wh** mad 



ployed in 1841 were, 

 377,142 tons of pig-iron, and in England 42,418, who 

 produced 1,500,000 tons of that metal; so that the 

 labour of each man in France produced barely 8 tors, 

 while in Great Britain it sufficed to produce more than 



35 tons. 



The like inquiries should be made with reference to 



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offers or may be 



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found. Upon this subject it is essential to know the 

 number of hours in the dav during which, at various 



seasons 



of th/' 



year, workm^en are ordinarily employ^^d, 

 whether the routine of their occupations is disturbed by 

 the intervention of hoiidavs, and to what extent such in* 

 terruptions are carried in different branches of industry. 





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