Dick, Stewart, Allingham, Helen Paterson, 1848-1926 · London, E. Arnold · leaf 294
t was thentaken to the furnace, which was a building sometwenty-four feet square, and about thirty feet inheight, containing an egg-shaped cavity, at thebottom of which was a hearth of sandstone, and theiron vent of the bellows. The last were worked atfirst by foot-blast, but in the middle of the… … NEAR HEATHFIELTl, SUSSEX. COTTAGES OF SUSSEX AND WESSEX 151 ten weeks after it was lighted. During each foun-day (working week of six days), on an average,eight tons of iron were produced at the expense oftwenty-four loads of charcoal (each load elevenquarters), and as many loads of ore (eighteen…
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