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gradually either) changed from the one to the other. He 

 protested against receiving the specimens under such circum- 

 stances. 



Mr. Leah said that three months would not bring the 

 furnaces into a proper state. 



Mr. Hartop, in continuation, briefly stated the reasons 

 why his paper was not read at the proper time. The dis- 

 cussions at the Sheffield meeting having taken more time 

 than was anticipated prevented its being read there : at the 

 following meeting at Wakefield no one was present to defend 

 the other side of the question, and now Mr. Graham neg- 

 lected to attend to support his views, and only sent a number 

 of specimens of a dubious nature. He was glad the dis- 

 cussion had been put off till it came to Bradford, because the 

 gentlemen connected with the iron trade here had discovered 

 the fallacy of the hot blast system, and had had the moral 

 courage to continue to make on the cold blast system, during 

 a series of years of depression, the result of which was, that 

 the miners in the vicinity of Bradford had been nearly fully 

 employed throughout the three years, while the miners in 

 other parts of the iron districts were only half employed. 



The Rev. Dr. Scoresby inquired whether the whole of 

 the iron on the table was from the same iron works. 



Mr. Hartop : Some is from Hawthorn's, of Newcastle, 

 and some from the Milton works. 



Dr. ScoRESBY : But it is understood that it is all from 

 Milton produce. 



Mr. Hartop thought that a few of the specimens were not 

 from Milton iron. He did not care, however, at what works 

 the cold blast iron was made. 



A long discussion then ensued, upon a suggestion made by 

 Mr. Morton, of Normanton, that it was uncourteous to the 

 hot blast defenders, to discuss the question when none of 

 them were present, which ended in Mr. Morton giving notice 



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