The inferior can be made to look nearly as well as the better article, and the purchaser can scarcely discover the difference without cutting into it.

Tin. The chief waste of this metal arises from tinned iron; some is lost in solder and in solutions for the dyers.

The English traveller rarely fails to acquiesce in this change, and often praises the filial piety of the rogue who has deceived him.

The quantity of labour expended on these chains is, however, incomparably less than that which is applied in some of the manufactures of iron.

The object of this process is to straighten the wire, which had acquired a considerable curvature in the small coils in which it had been wound.

A manager, who has the general knowledge of all that is to be done, and who may be assisted by one or more skilful persons.

The present work was set up in slips, but the corrections have been unusually large, and the revises frequent.

An attention to this circumstance sometimes causes the union of two trades in one factory, which otherwise might have been separated.

Snag is the name given in America to trees which stand nearly upright in the stream with their roots fixed at the bottom.

The same quantity of fuel, applied at once to the furnace, would only prolong the duration of its heat, not augment its intensity.

This is not always foreseen; and when anticipated is often inaccurately estimated.

Every person concerned in the factory would have an immediate interest in preventing any waste or mismanagement in all the departments.

This will most frequently arise from the circumstance of its producing its work at a greater expense than that at which it can be made by other methods.

If this supply was for Great Britain only, it was consumed by about ten and a half millions of persons.

'I have received these articles repeatedly—I know these things have been paid to a great extent in this way.'

This, probably, is often the case, and admitting it, no reasonable person can object to a proportionate increase of price.

In 1810, the workman's wages were guaranteed not to be less than 26s.

It appears to have been collected with care, and contains, in a single sheet of paper, a body of facts of the greatest importance.

Thus, therefore, the machine-maker is himself interested in giving the first advantage of any new improvement to his own countrymen.

I shall here content myself with referring to that work.