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As an especial favour, he allowed me to purchase at a high price an armful of dirty straw, which was all the poor horses had for supper after their long day's journey. Few smelting-furnaces are now at work in any part of Chile; it is found more profitable, on account of the extreme scarcity of firewood, and from the Chilian method of reduction being so unskilful, to ship the ore for Swansea.
I do not aver that the railroad is devoid of a kind of poetry of its own, the same kind of sentiment, nearly, that resides about anvils and smelting-furnaces in the Hartz Mountains and in the great coal-districts: an infernal kind of sentiment, for the most part, being inseparable from burning fiery furnaces and grime; as in "Fridolin," and in the "Song of the Bell," and in the "Forging of the Anchor."
"Oh, there's not a bit of doubt about it," cried Denham. "What do you say, Sergeant?" "Not a bit o' doubt about it, sir. I've seen smelting-furnaces enough our way for copper and tin, and this might have been one of such places, made by old-fashioned folks who didn't know so much as we know now. It's an old smelting-shop for certain; but I don't see as we've anything to shout about."
Up the valley of the Tawe the town spreads several miles, and here are the enormous copper-works and smelting-furnaces which make a reproduction of the infernal regions, defile the air, but fill the purses of the townsfolk. Swansea is the greatest copper-smelting dépôt in the world, drawing its ores from all parts of the globe.
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