A handbook to the industries of the British Isles and the United StatesD. Rogue, 1882 - 220 pages |
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... considerable part of that county , and extending into those of Renfrew , Dumbar- ton and Stirling . 15. The Ayrshire field is important , and is found in Ayrshire and Dumfriesshire . The coals are used in the numerous ironworks , and a ...
... considerable part of that county , and extending into those of Renfrew , Dumbar- ton and Stirling . 15. The Ayrshire field is important , and is found in Ayrshire and Dumfriesshire . The coals are used in the numerous ironworks , and a ...
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... considerable importance , and employs about 7000 persons . The wire trade may be divided into two distinct branches the making of the wire , and the working it up into various articles when made . The former of these is always found in ...
... considerable importance , and employs about 7000 persons . The wire trade may be divided into two distinct branches the making of the wire , and the working it up into various articles when made . The former of these is always found in ...
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... considerable time . If there is one branch of manufacture more than another that England excels in over all the world , it is that of machinery , whatever may be the kind . Agri- cultural machinery has of late years developed into a ...
... considerable time . If there is one branch of manufacture more than another that England excels in over all the world , it is that of machinery , whatever may be the kind . Agri- cultural machinery has of late years developed into a ...
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... considerable extent in parts of Cumberland . Scotland is a great source of some of our best granites , which are very abundant in Aber- deenshire ( shipped at Aberdeen and Peterhead ) , in the islands of Mull and Arran , and in ...
... considerable extent in parts of Cumberland . Scotland is a great source of some of our best granites , which are very abundant in Aber- deenshire ( shipped at Aberdeen and Peterhead ) , in the islands of Mull and Arran , and in ...
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... considerable industry carried on in marble polishing . The limestones of an earlier age , called Devonian , and quarried largely in the south of Devon , are harder and more ornamental , and therefore are in 66 more request with builders ...
... considerable industry carried on in marble polishing . The limestones of an earlier age , called Devonian , and quarried largely in the south of Devon , are harder and more ornamental , and therefore are in 66 more request with builders ...
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acres agricultural machinery America Average of farms basin Birmingham boot and shoe Britain British carried centre chief cloth coal and iron coast collieries copper Cornwall cotton spinning cotton trade Crown 8vo DAVID BOGUE Demy 8vo districts England enormous exports extent Fcap fisheries fishing flax flour mills Forest of Dean glass gold granite growing hematite hosiery Illustrated important industry Ireland iron foundries iron trade jute Lake Lancashire lead Lincolnshire linen Liverpool London lumber trade machine shops maize manufacture Martin's Place million Mississippi Missouri Mountains mouth neighbourhood North oats Ohio Pennsylvania pottery principal produce quantities quarrying railway River salt saw mills Scotland Second Edition ship building shipping port shire shoe trade silk silver smelting South Wales square miles Staffordshire steamers steel Stoke-upon-Trent sugar textiles tobacco tons towns traffic Valley vast Vols weaving West wheat Woodcuts wool woollen factories woollen mills woollen trade Worcestershire yield York Yorkshire zinc
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