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Updated: May 18, 2025
Enormous hammers or pounders they are, with shanks as well as heads of malleable-iron, each weighing, shank and head together, seven hundredweight. They are fearful things, these stamps; iron in spirit as well as in body, for they go on for ever night and day wrought by a steam-engine of one hundred horse-power, as enduring as themselves.
Then came the days of knight-errantry, when parties in malleable-iron clothing and shirts of mail which were worn without change rode up and down the country seeking for maids in distress.
Perhaps the herculean men employed in malleable-iron works toil as severely, but, besides the cheering consciousness of being well paid for their labour, these men exert their powers in the midst of sunlight and fresh air, while the miners toil in bad air, and get little pay in hard times.
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