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tice the many ingenious machines used in the Harefield Copper-works , several of which are , we believe , unknown elsewhere . One only we must mention . There is a machine ,
which is now beginning to be known and valued accordingly , expressly for making nails . A flat strip of zinc or copper is presented to its mouth : iron lips draw it in ; teeth cut it to a four-sided point : another action rounds its upper limb ; it is then held fast to receive a blow which makes its head ; and it drops out a perfect nail .
We hammered one or two into the threshold of the door , and though it was of new oak , they entered up to the very head . They seem to be made at the rate of about thirty in a minute . The Secretary , to whose polite attentions and general information we feel much indebted , informed us that the machine
could make them rather more rapidly , but that there was a tendency in that case for some of the nails to be imperfect ; and moreover , this machine illustrates the paradox of being equally strong and delic&te , and is consequently liable to be broken by the imperfection of the very thing it habitually creates perfect .
We do iiot know , ha l ving forgotten to ask , what the age of this Company may be , or what their eivic honours . Both
we should conjecture to be considerable . We are informed that it boasts of a Governor , a Deputy-Governor , and a Court of Directors ; and have moreover heard it rumoured , that once a-year the Governor
in a great barge ( probably of embossed copper ) attended by all the gentlemen aforesaid , with the Secretary at the helm , and the Clerks standing with zinc rods at the bows , comes down to Harefield , and navigates all the streams in the Company ' s domains , before the annual dinner given on the occasion .
We do not vouch for the strict authenticity of these particulars , but " something annual" we are assured takes place in the shape of the triumphal dining of the Rulers . We do not know if Milton's 6 Mask ' be presented upon the occasion ; but if so , we should
apprehend that no lines would meet with so much applause as those of the first Song . The word c < she " would of course be understood to apply to the abstract idea df a Furnace .
" Look , nymphs and shepherds , look ! What sudden blaze of majesty Is that which we from hence descry ? Too divine to be mistook ! Thhj this is She To whpm our vows and wishes bendy Here our solemn sefrrch hath end /'— Arcades ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 1, 1837, page 339, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1837/page/43/
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