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the wafteof the Fuel and other Materials with frcfli, poured 
in at the cop. 
Several attemprs have been made ro bring in the ufe of Sea* 
coal in thefe Works, inftcad of Charcoal* the former being 
to be had at an eafie rate, the lacter, noc without great ex- 
pence : bur hitherto they have proved inefFcftual. The Work- 
men finding by experience, that a Sea-coal Fire,how vehement 
foever, will nor penetrate the moft fix'd parts of the Ore, 
and fo leavech much of the Mecal unmelted* 
From thefe Furnaces, they bring their Sows and Pigs of 
Iron C*s they call them) to their Forges* Thefe are of two 
forts, though (landing together under the fame Roof: one 
they call their Finery, the other, the Chafery . Both of them 
are open Hearths, cn which ihey place great heaps of Sea-coal, 
and behind them. Bellows, liketo ihofcof the Furnaces, buc 
nothing near fo large* Inro the Finery , they firft put their 
Pigs of Iron, placing threeor four of them together behind 
the fire,with a littleof oneend thruft into it. Where fofter.ing, 
by degrees they ftiraod work them with long Bars of Iron, till 
the Metal runs together into a round Mafs or Lump, which 
they call a Half- Bloom. This they take out , and giving it a 
few flrokes with their Sledges, they carry it to a great weighty 
Hammer, raifed likewife by the morion of a Wacer-wheel : 
where applying it dexteroufly to the blows, they prefcntly 
beat it out inro a thick ftort fquare. This they put into the 
Finery again, and heating it red hoc, they work it out under 
the fame Hammer, till ir comes into the (hape of a Bar in the 
middle, with two fquare knobs in the ends. Laflof all, they 
give it other Hearings in the Chafery, and more workings un- 
der the Hammer, till they have brought their Iron into Bars of 
feveral fbapes and fizes ; in which faflhion they expofe them to 
Sale. 
All their Principal Iron undergoes all the forementioned 
preparations; yet for feveral purpofes, as for the Backs of 
Chimneys, Hearths of Ovens, and the like, they have a fore 
of Caft-lron ^ which they take one of the Receivers of the 
Furnace^ fo foon as it is melted, in great Ladles , and pouric 
into Moulds of fine Sand: in like manner as rhey caft Brafs 
and other fofter Metals: but this fort of Iron is fo very brit- 
tle, that being heated, with one blow of a Hammer it breaks 
all to pieces* Though 
