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Page 42
... iron with pit - coal ; but , wanting a forge to make it into bars , was constrained , for want of stock , to sell the pig - iron unto the * " Provided also , and be it declared and enacted , that this Act , or any declaracion ...
... iron with pit - coal ; but , wanting a forge to make it into bars , was constrained , for want of stock , to sell the pig - iron unto the * " Provided also , and be it declared and enacted , that this Act , or any declaracion ...
Page 48
... iron made with pit - coal ( sea - coal for the most part ) , and therefore more sufficiently to be preferred ; 2 . More cheap iron there cannot be made , for the author did sell pig or cast - iron made with pit - coal at 47. per ton ...
... iron made with pit - coal ( sea - coal for the most part ) , and therefore more sufficiently to be preferred ; 2 . More cheap iron there cannot be made , for the author did sell pig or cast - iron made with pit - coal at 47. per ton ...
Page 49
... pig - iron with , which coals are , and unless iron be made therewith , will be for ever totally and annually lost . If four or five thousand tons of coal be consumed within ten miles of compass , what coal is thus consumed in all ...
... pig - iron with , which coals are , and unless iron be made therewith , will be for ever totally and annually lost . If four or five thousand tons of coal be consumed within ten miles of compass , what coal is thus consumed in all ...
Page 55
... iron mills , making iron with charcoal . Now we may suppose at least 300 to be furnaces , and each furnace making fifteen tons per week of pig or cast - iron , and work or blow but forty weeks per annum ; but some furnaces make twenty tons ...
... iron mills , making iron with charcoal . Now we may suppose at least 300 to be furnaces , and each furnace making fifteen tons per week of pig or cast - iron , and work or blow but forty weeks per annum ; but some furnaces make twenty tons ...
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... iron ; the quantity of which , it was said , we could not increase , by reason of our woods being so far exhausted as to have greatly enhanced the price of cord wood used in the refining of iron- stone ; and were we to import more pig - ...
... iron ; the quantity of which , it was said , we could not increase , by reason of our woods being so far exhausted as to have greatly enhanced the price of cord wood used in the refining of iron- stone ; and were we to import more pig - ...
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