History of the Iron Trade

Excerpt from History of the Iron Trade: From the Earliest Records to the Present Period The writer was originally induced to collect facts relating to the History of the Iron Trade in the year 1826, when the quantity made in this country amounted to about 600,000 tons, in consequence of reading a petition to the Houses of Parliament in 1750 against a Bill for encouraging the Importation of Iron from our American Colonies. It was from "the tanners of leather in and about the town of Sheffield in Yorkshire, representing that if the Bill should pass, the English iron would be undersold; consequently a great number of furnaces and forges would be discontinued; in that case the woods used for fuel would stand uncut, and the tanners be deprived of oak bark sufficient for the continuance and support of their occupation." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.