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Wylie was taken off his guard, and stammered out something about the Shannon. "The Shannon! What have you to do with her? You belong to the Proserpine." "Ay, sir; but I had his orders to ship forty chests of lead and smelted copper on board the Shannon." "Well?" "Ye see, sir," said Wylie, "Mr.
But the timber which had once been floated down its river was all cut and gone; and the bog-iron which had once been smelted in its furnaces was all used up; and the forest glass-makers and charcoal-burners who had once traded in its store had all disappeared; and the new colonies of fruit-growers and truck-farmers from Italy and Germany did not like to settle quite so far from the railway; and there was nothing left for Watermouth but to sit in the sun and doze, while one family after another melted away, and house after house closed its windows and its doors.
It was smelted from the precious metal taken from the mines of the Peninsula of Malacca, and it will have its gleam when the sparkle of the diamond is spent." "I'll give you a shilling for it, and hold your tongue." "No! I will not have it on my conscience. God is my judge, I will break it up first. I will cut it into pieces.
No ore has been smelted; and, so far as we can learn, the quantity in the dump is small. We are working on an unprofitable scale, and need more labor and better and more expensive machines. In short, we need more money. I have no doubt Mr. Thirlwell will admit this." "A larger capital would be an advantage," Thirlwell assented dryly. "We can't extend our capital," George objected.
You see, I knew nothing of raw products. Until I went to sea I didn't know how far the common things come. I didn't know that Yorkshire pig-iron was smelted from Tunisian and Ionian ore, or that the sugar in my tea had gone from Java to New York and from there to Liverpool. I didn't know where things came from nor where they went. The geography at school had some of it no doubt.
There he found the hidden iron-ore, and carried it to his smithy and put it in the furnace to be smelted. And Ilmarinen had not blown more than three strokes of the bellows before the iron began to grow soft as dough. But then Iron cried out to him, 'Take me from this furnace, Ilmarinen, save me from this cruel torture! for the heat of the fire had grown unbearable.
Frank Nelsen meant the journey to be vagabond escape, an interlude of to hell with it relief from the grind, and from the increasingly uncertain mainstream of the things he knew best. He rode with a long train of bubbs and great sheaves of smelted metal rods tungsten, osmium, uranium 238. The sheaves had their own propelling ionic motors. He lazed like a tramp.
But coal and iron, the two earth-born servants of national progress which are now always twins, were not then coupled. The first of them was out of consideration. There are mountains of iron in Mexico, but no coal, and silver-mines so rich that silver, smelted with expensive wood fuel, is the staple product of the country. Yet the people are among the poorest in Christendom.
The ore extracted from this great mine is smelted in blast furnaces with wood charcoal, and forged into bars. The charcoal is, of course, entirely free from sulphur. When sent to Sheffield the iron is placed in fire-brick troughs closely surrounded by powdered charcoal.
It is to be likened to the heat of the molten iron which has been run into the sand, rather than to the glowing coals in the furnace in which that iron has been smelted. There is one volcanic outbreak of such exceptional interest in these modern times that I cannot refrain from alluding to it.
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