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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 507

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he world. The room would be dark but for the fiery glowof the furnaces which line one end of the place.On these are a number of small pots, filled with red-hot liquid metal; and while we look, a workman lifts one after another, with a pair of long tongs,and pours the glowing gold in streams into… … is shaped like a wedge. That it may entereasily between the roll-ers, is the reply. Youwill see the rollers whenwe go upstairs. The guide calls ourattention to the curious false floor, made of iron ina honey-comb pattern, and divided into small sec-tions, so that it can be readily taken up to…

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