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Between the breaks in the shipping one could see the sea-gulls fishing and the harbour flashing, here spangled with coal tar, here whipped to deepest sapphire by the mistral; the junk shops, grog shops, parrot shops, rope-walks, ships' stores and factories lining the quays, each lending a perfume, a voice, or a scrap of colour to the air vibrating with light, vibrating with sound, shot through with voices; hammer blows from the copper sheathers in the dry docks, the rolling of drums from Port St.
Farther on, the dry docks, where large vessels were laid low on their sides till their yards dipped in the water; they were singed with thorn-bushes to free them of sea weed; there rose an odour of pitch, and the deafening clatter of the sheathers coppering the bottoms with broad sheets of yellow metal.
Culters. Bucklemakers, sheathers, bladesmiths. Drapers. Linenweavers. Miscellaneous Trades: Goldsmiths. Parchemeners and bookbinders. Scriveners. Writers of texts. Shipwrights. Fishers and mariners. Artist craftsmen of York supplied most of the churches of the north of England with their beautiful vessels, furniture, and ornaments.
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